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The Twentieth Century WorldThis CD-ROM is part of the AVP PictureBase Encyclopedia - a collection of CDs which is intended to cover topics on the National Curriculum in much greater depth than would be possible by single CDs. This one deals with twentieth century events in Russia, China, Japan, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and the United States. [The UK is covered extensively elsewhere in the collection.] The concentration is on political and military history, with the first and second world wars understandably dominant.
The pictures are taken from photographs, magazines, and newspapers, and they are fairly good quality, except some of the smaller coloured selections taken from older sources. They are also original in their choices. Most of the pictures, apart from portraits of people like Trotsky and Lenin, I had not seen before. The target audience is Study Unit 4 of the History national Curriculum - at least that's what it says on the box - but this is a resource which could be useful for a much wider audience. As a backup for social history at any level I think it would be very useful - and the ability to print off pictures, plus text, plus your own additional notes should make it an excellent aid to classroom teaching. © Roy Johnson 1999 [more SOFTWARE reviews] The Twentieth Century World, Monmouth: AVP Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0752700197
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