The United Nations Fight for Freedom

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Poster produced during the Second World War by the United States Office of War Information. Features an image of the Statue of Liberty alongside 30 flags of the countries that signed the Declaration by United Nations in 1942.
OWI Poster no. 19
Place
Washington (D.C.)/United States of America
Other Id
18513 (Presto content ID)
PT10 (51) (Legacy number)
EPH-PW-2-114 (Reference Number)
Department
Ephemera

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Object Type
poster
Name/Title
The United Nations Fight for Freedom
Primary Maker
Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries (Publisher)
S. Broder (Artist)
Contributor/Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Place
Washington (D.C.)/United States of America
Date
1942
Physical Description
1 sheet : ill. ; 1015 x 723 mm
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Media/Materials
paper (fiber product)
Subject Category
World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
United Nations--Armed Forces
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Allied Forces
World War, 1939-1945--Posters
Flags--History
Public Access Text
On New Year’s Day 1942, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov, of the USSR, and T. V. Soong, of China, signed a short document which later came to be known as the United Nations Declaration. The next day the representatives of twenty-two other nations added their signatures. This important document pledged the signatory governments to the maximum war effort and bound them against making a separate peace.
The 26 member countries were, Australia, Belgium, British India, Canada, Republic of China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia.
[Source: http://www.un.org/en/sections/history-united-nations-charter/1942-declaration-united-nations/]
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Last Update
06 Mar 2023

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