V sign facts for kids

The V sign is a hand gesture that means victory or peace. It is made by raising the first and second fingers on the hand, and putting down the other fingers.

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  Winston Churchill showing the V sign.

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  Iraqi boys making the V sign in Baghdad.

Images for kids

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  Woman showing the V sign

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  Young Japanese women giving V gesture in Tokyo (2006)

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  2009 Iranian election protests

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  Nixon departing the White House on 9 August 1974

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  An investigator flashes V-for-victory signs upon the 2006 arrival of material gathered by the Stardust spacecraft at the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

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  Lech Wałęsa and George H. W. Bush, July 1989

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  Resistance graffiti on a Norwegian road, depicting the V-sign together with the initials of King Haakon VII.

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  A German V-sign and slogan on the Palais Bourbon in occupied Paris. The banner beneath the "V" reads "Germany is Victorious on All Fronts".

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  The V-sign (and its morse code equivalent) incorporated on an American propaganda poster for the War Production Board, 1942 or 1943.