The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a government agency created during Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (60,000 ft) into the air. August 9, 1945 World War II was a global conflict that started in 7 July 1937 in Asia and 1 September 1939 in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the... World War II to consolidate government information services. Besides coordinating the release of war news for domestic use, the office established an overseas branch which launched a huge information and This article is about the type of communication. For other meanings, see Propaganda (disambiguation). North Korean propaganda showing a soldier destroying the United States Capitol building. Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an agenda. At its root, the denotation of propaganda is to propagate (actively... propaganda campaign abroad.

The OWI was established in 1942 to consolidate the functions of the Office of Facts and Figures, the Office of Government Reports, the division of information of the Office for Emergency Management, and the foreign information service of the Coordinator of Information. Elmer Davis was named director. Congressional opposition to the domestic operations of the OWI resulted in increasingly curtailed funds, and by 1944 the OWI operated mostly in the foreign field, contributing to undermining enemy morale. The agency was abolished in 1945, and its foreign functions were transferred to the Dept. of State Larger version Established: July 27, 1789 Renamed: September 15, 1789 Secretary: Condoleezza Rice Deputy Secretary: Robert Zoellick Budget: $9.96 billion (2004) Employees: 30,266 (2004) The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of... Department of State.

Among its wide-ranging responsibilities, OWI sought to review and approve the design and content of government posters. OWI officials felt that the most urgent problem on the home front was the careless leaking of sensitive information that could be picked up by spies and saboteurs.

During 1942 and 1943, the OWI contained two photographic units whose photographers documented the country's mobilization during the early years of the war, concentrating on such topics as aircraft factories and women in the workforce.

Among the many people who worked for the OWI were Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 - May 2, 1985) served as president of three major American universities. He served as president of Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and in 1956 became the eighth president of Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight... Milton S. Eisenhower, Howard Fast (November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Born in New York City, his mother was British and his father the son of Ukrainian immigrants. When his mother died in 1923 and his father became unemployed, Howards youngest brother, Julius, went to... Howard Fast, Jane Butzner Jacobs (born May 4, 1916) is a writer, activist, and city aficionado. She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. In 1944 she was married to Robert Hyde Jacobs. She has two sons, James Kedzie, born 1948, and Edward Decker, born 1950. Contents // 1... Jane Jacobs Lewis Wade Jones Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American science fiction and alternative history writer. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia on June 16, 1896. During World War I, he served with the Committee of Public Information and the United States Army (1917-1918... Murray Leinster, Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and public servant. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. Biography MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. His father, Andrew MacLeish, was a dry-goods merchant. His mother, Martha Hillard, was a college... Archibald MacLeish, Charles Olson (27 December 1910 _ 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and such later avant garde groups as the Beats and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E... Charles Olson, This article is about the elder Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965). For his son and namesake (1917-), see Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. (1888-1965) was a historian. His son is Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.. He taught as a professor at Harvard University, where Schlesinger Library is named... Arthur Schlesinger, Sir William Samuel Stephenson, C.C., M.C., D.F.C. (January 11, 1896–January 31, 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Stephenson is best-known by his wartime intelligence... William Stephenson, and James Reston.

External links

• Images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html) (Library of Congress)
• War Aims Through Art (http://www.hrw.com/si/social/si_1914/si_ww2posters/victory5.htm) (posters)