<P> Home - front posters also invoked an idealized America, as in the series declaring "This is America", portraying "the family is a sacred institution," "where Main Street is bigger than Broadway," and "where a man picks his job". Typically, men were presented as ordinary but women as beautiful and glamorous . </P> <P> Roosevelt urged support for Britain before the United States entered the war, to gain support for the Lend - Lease Act . Part of this reasoning was that those who were currently fighting the Axis powers would keep war from the United States, if supported . </P> <P> In propaganda media, posters urged support for Great Britain, while the stock character of the "supercilious Englishman" was removed from film . Newsreels depicted the Blitz, showing the famous St Paul's Survives image of St. Paul's dome rising above the flames, and Ed Murrow reported the effects . Frank Capra's film The Battle of Britain (1943), in the Why We Fight series, depicted the RAF's fight against Germany . While it embellished real life dogfights, it did depict the frightening night raids, which the British people nevertheless managed to carry - on through . </P> <P> Before 7 December 1941 and the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii, a number of Americans in the north and mid-west United States were either sympathetic to Nazi Germany or simply opposed to another war with Germany because they were of German ancestry . In addition, numerous Irish - Catholic Americans were pro-Nazi because they were openly hostile to the British and British interests . However, the American South was very pro-British at this time, because of the kinship southerners felt for the British . The South was deemed "a total failure" for the non-interventionist America First Committee for reasons such as traditional southern pride in the military, pro-British sentiment and Anglophilia due to a predominance of British ancestry among most Southerners, political loyalty to the Democratic Party and the role of defense spending in aiding the region's depressed economy . </P>

Which of the following is true about the american movie industry during world war ii