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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.
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.