American propaganda art

American War Propaganda

EVERY country used them — and, just like today’s advertising campaigns, getting the words exactly right on propaganda posters was vital.

Early cold war Propaganda poster

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30 Awesome Vintage Military Nurse Recruiting Posters. The American government put a lot of thought and artistic talent into creating posters to try and recruit women for nurse service through the Red Cross. It only makes sense that they would put just as much effort in attempting to recruit women to fix up the American boys when they get wounded in the war effort.

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American eyes have been riveted on North Africa and the Middle East these past months. The popular protests that rocked Tunis, Cairo, and Tripoli, and so many other cities during the "Arab Spring" of 2011 evoked memories of the violent confrontation between Iranian dissidents and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Islamist regime in the streets of Tehran eighteen months earlier.