<p>Poster created during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" class="extiw" title="en:World War II">Second World War</a> (1943), according to the Declaration of the United Nations of 1942. The Poster, created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information" class="extiw" title="en:United States Office of War Information">United States Office of War Information</a> and made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Government_Printing_Office" class="extiw" title="en:United States Government Printing Office">United States Government Printing Office</a><sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/wpdb/index.asp?exact=MPW00296">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.state.nh.us/ww2/ww49.html">[2]</a></sup>. The poster features the flags of those countries or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/government_in_exile#World_War_II" class="extiw" title="en:government in exile">governments-in-exile</a> that pledged to support the Allied effort (beginning from the top-left corner, and continuing in rows from left to right: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti" class="extiw" title="en:Haiti">Haiti</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" class="extiw" title="en:Norway">Norway</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" class="extiw" title="en:Brazil">Brazil</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" class="extiw" title="en:United States">United States</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" class="extiw" title="en:Cuba">Cuba</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic" class="extiw" title="en:Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="en:United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece" class="extiw" title="en:Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" class="extiw" title="en:Guatemala">Guatemala</a> [behind the British Flag], <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" class="extiw" title="en:South Africa">South Africa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" class="extiw" title="en:Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" class="extiw" title="en:Republic of China (1912–1949)">China</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia" class="extiw" title="en:Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg" class="extiw" title="en:Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" class="extiw" title="en:Canada">Canada</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" class="extiw" title="en:Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" class="extiw" title="en:Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" class="extiw" title="en:Bolivia">Bolivia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia" class="extiw" title="en:Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras" class="extiw" title="en:Honduras">Honduras</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" class="extiw" title="en:Panama">Panama</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" class="extiw" title="en:Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" class="extiw" title="en:India">India</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica" class="extiw" title="en:Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador" class="extiw" title="en:El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" class="extiw" title="en:Australia">Australia</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" class="extiw" title="en:Philippines">Philippines</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" class="extiw" title="en:Poland">Poland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" class="extiw" title="en:Mexico">Mexico</a>, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" class="extiw" title="en:Netherlands">Netherlands</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" class="extiw" title="en:New Zealand">New Zealand</a>) above the on-going war machine that the United Nations represented. The absence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_French_Forces" class="extiw" title="en:Free French Forces">Free French</a> flag is unusual.
This poster is important because it represents the origins of the United Nations as a wartime alliance (before it was a concrete organization).
</p><p>As a work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_War_Information" class="extiw" title="en:Office of War Information">Office of War Information</a>, a branch of the United States Federal Government, this work is in public domain.
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Obtained via E-Donkey by Commanderraf.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information" class="extiw" title="en:United States Office of War Information">United States Office of War Information</a> and made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Government_Printing_Office" class="extiw" title="en:United States Government Printing Office">United States Government Printing Office</a><sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/wpdb/index.asp?exact=MPW00296">[5]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.state.nh.us/ww2/ww49.html">[6]</a></sup>
1943
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information" class="extiw" title="en:United States Office of War Information">United States Office of War Information</a> and made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Government_Printing_Office" class="extiw" title="en:United States Government Printing Office">United States Government Printing Office</a><sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/wpdb/index.asp?exact=MPW00296">[3]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.state.nh.us/ww2/ww49.html">[4]</a></sup>