American Decades
"Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
Poster
By: U.S. Navy
Date: 1944
Source: "Serve your country in the WAVES." 1944. Navy Historical Center. Department of the Navy. Available online at http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/posters/wwiiwomen/wavep1.htm; website home page http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html (accessed March 17, 2003).
About the Organization: Throughout World War II (1939–1945), the U.S. government recruited men into national service, urged citizens to ration scarce resources such as food and gasoline, warned Americans against sharing confidential military information, and encouraged people to buy war bonds. It also conducted campaigns to draw women into the military. The U.S. Navy, for example, advertised on behalf of its female corps, the WAVES. Such advertisements reinforced...
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1940's: Primary Sources
