FDR’s State of the Union Address: 1943

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Union_Address_for_1943_by_Franklin_Roosevelt.ogg January 7th, 1943, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt made history with his State of the Union Address. In the heat of World War II, FDR was one of the only morale...
Soldiers Without Guns

Soldiers Without Guns

The war poster, “Soldiers Without Guns” was created by Adolph Treidler in 1944 during end of World War II. Published by the U.S Government Printing Office, this poster is just one example of the propaganda used during this time period to implore more women to join the...
Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima

Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima

Beginning on December 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii until the final surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, the United States was involved in a brutal war in the Pacific. Allied with Britain and France, U.S. troops fought...
We Can Do It

We Can Do It

Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of art that started as World War II propaganda and is still to this day recognized as a feminist symbol for gender equality. World War II was a war of ideologies, with Fascism quickly emerging in Germany and Italy, other countries...
Ride with Hitler

Ride with Hitler

During World War II, anti-Nazi propaganda was used to help the United States during the war.  Some specifically, to persuade Americans to conserve resources so they could be utilized in war.  One propaganda poster states, “When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler! ...