| The ultimate chronicle of an incredible century!
Pick a time in history and 20th Century Day by Day will take you there. How about the royal wedding--July 29, 1981: the newspaper has a front-page photo that comes alive as a full-color video of Prince Charles with Lady Diana on that day. Curious about people?--Watch slideshows of famous movie stars throughout the history of film (and view their biographies and related articles). See photos and biographies of athletes and celebrities, artists and musicians, scientists, inventors, explorers, and world leaders--Babe Ruth, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon--fascinating people, incredible stories. Then check out the 20th Century in Focus to explore key concepts in depth--space exploration, the Depression, the fall of communism, and much more.
There's more...from the Wright Brothers' first flight to the Apollo moon landing ... from votes for women to the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa ... from the fall of the czar of Russia to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union ... it's all here in one dynamic program that chronicles the achievements of the most progressive era in humankind.
Bring the entire scope and sweep of this amazing era with the events that shook the world and the people that made them happen. From the famous to the infamous, read the stories of the people who most influenced the events of the century and track their lives on a unique scrolling timeline that let's you see how different events relate to each other.
Key Features
- Track the events of the century day by day, month by month
- 6,000 news stories each written with a "you are there" style to make history as exciting as today's news headlines
- 2 million words of text
- 100 biographies
- 90 archival sound clips
- 70 video clips and 3,000 color and black-and-white photos
- Powerful search features
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