Timeline:
- 1941: the U.S. Army immediately began working with Walt Disney after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
- 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of War Information (OWI). This was a mid-level agency that joined a host of other wartime agencies, including the War and State Departments, in spreading of war information and propaganda.
- 1942: Norman Corwin's This is War series was broadcast throughout the country and, by shortwave, throughout the world.
- 1942 (-1943):Orson Welles created two CBS Radio series that are regarded as significant contributions to the war effort.
- 1942:The film Mrs. Miniver portrayed the experiences of an English housewife during the Battle of Britain and urged the support of both men and women for the war effort. It was rushed to the theaters on Roosevelt's orders.
- 1944 (-1948): U.S. policy makers launched a domestic propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the U.S. public to accept a harsh peace for the German people.
- 1944: After being praised by Ernie Pyle, Bill Mauldin's cartoons were syndicated in the United States.This effort was supported by the War Department due to Mauldin's grimmer depiction of everyday military life in his cartoons.
- 1944:The film The Purple Heart was used to dramatize Japanese crimes and the heroics of American flyers.