Back. This enables you to step back to the previous screen.
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Previous Menu. This steps back to the most relevant menu screen.
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Help. This invokes the context-sensitive help system you are using now.
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Index. This displays the index, allowing you to browse the disc at random. This disc contains two indexes, one arranged alphabetically, and another arranged chronologically.
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TrailSave. This displays the TrailSave selection screen, where you can edit and view 'Trails' of interesting slides.
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Add to Trail. This allows the current slide to be quickly added to end of the current Trail.
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Copy. This allows export of currently viewed pictures and text to the clipboard or to disk.
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World War II: Global Conflict
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Produced by Interactive Learning Productions in association with Yorkshire Television.
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The time bar shows the time bands into which the video is divided. Clicking on a time band takes you to the relevant piece of video.
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Clicking the Investigate button displays a summary of the current time band, from which more detailed information can be accessed.
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Play. Starts playing the video.
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Pause. Pauses the video. Repeated clicking advances video frame by frame.
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Rewind. Rewinds the video whilst held down.
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Fast Forward. Rapidly advances the video whilst held down.
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Start. Rewinds video to beginning.
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Mute. Toggles sound on or off.
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Expand. Toggles between normal and maximised size video.
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The time bar shows the time bands into which the current video is divided. Clicking on a time band displays a summary of the major events of that period.
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Summary. Displays the summary screen you are currently viewing.
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Summary. Displays a summary of the main events in the current time band.
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Themes. Displays a list of themes relevant to the current time band. (A theme is large topic which is relevant throughout World War II). If you select a theme you will be taken to the slide (picture and text) within that theme which is most relevant to the current time band.
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Events. Displays a list of events relevant to the current time band. If you select an event you will be taken to the slide (picture and text) within that event which is most relevant to the current time band.
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Biographies. Displays a list of biographies relevant to the current time band. If you select a biography you will be taken to the slide (picture and text) within that biography which is most relevant to the current time band.
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The time bar shows the time bands into which the current video is divided. The yellow bars show the relevance of the current theme, biography or event. You can only click on the time bands covered by the yellow bar. Clicking on one of these time bands displays the slide relevant to that time band.
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Previous/Next Slide. These buttons display the previous or next slide of the current event, theme or biography.
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Select. Clicking this allows any slide in the current topic to be selected.
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Enlarge Picture. Displays an larger version of the current picture, allowing the picture to be viewed in greater detail. A caption is also accessible from the large picture, offering you further information.
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Enlarge Text. Displays enlarged text for easier reading.
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Other Pictures. When available, this icon displays a list of other pictures relevant to the current slide. Select a title, and that picture will take the place of the first image. The new picture can then also be enlarged.
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Audio. When available, this icon plays an audio track. Whilst the audio is playing, pressing this icon again will turn it off. Information on the audio track can be found at the end of the slide text.
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Animation. When available, this displays an animation. The maps section contains several animations detailing campaigns and battles.
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Menu. Pressing this steps back up the Maps section one level.
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Maps. Displays a the list of available maps, allowing them to be viewed in any order.
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Events. Lists the events covered by the Maps section. Selecting one will take you to further information on that event.
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Countries. Lists the countries covered by the Maps section. Selecting one will take you to further information on that country.
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Country map pin. Displays detailed information about the labelled country.
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Event map pin. Displays detailed information about the labelled event.
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Content: Sarah Davies and Dave Gardner
Programming: Paul Dixon and Kevin Simpson.
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Select Overview. Buttons like these display a short overview of a particular section of the disc.
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Alphabetical Index. Pressing this selects a conventional, alphabetically arranged index.
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Chronological Index. Pressing this selects a chronologically arranged index, which is sub-divided geographically.
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Heading entry. Selecting a heading entry causes sub-entries to be displayed in the following column.
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Slide entry. Selecting a slide entry allows that slide to be viewed, by pressing 'Go to', or added to the current trail with 'TrailSave Plus'.
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Designed and produced by
Interactive Learning Productions
Yorkshire Television
in association with
US National Archives
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Content: Sarah Davies, Dave Gardner
Application programming: Paul Dixon, Kevin Simpson
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Acknowledgements
The producers would like to thank the following:
Images
US National Archives
Robert Hunt Library
Mary Evans Picture Library
Pat Hodgson
Bibliothek fⁿr Zeitgeschichte
Universitetsbiblioteket I Oslo
Corel Professional Photos
Film footage
US National Archives
Additional research and text
Peter Clack
Joy Colthup
John Hobart
Video editor
Lawrence James, Stonehills Studios
Video conversion
Stonehills Studios
Humphries Video Services
Animations
Sheila Graber Animation
At the National Archives of the United States:
Co-ordinator
Bill Blakefield
Historical/Editorial consultants
Henry Gwiazda
Mary Ryan
Photographic Research
Robert Ellis
Kenneth Hawkins
Audio Research
Darlene McClurkin
Educational Consultant
Beth Havercamp
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The producers would like to thank the publishers and/or copyright holders for permission to reproduce material from the following works:
Bloch, Michael, Ribbentrop, Bantam Press, 1992
Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, HarperCollins, 1991
Calvorcoressi, Wint and Pritchard, Total War Volume. 1: The Western Hemishpere, Penguin, 1989
Documents on German Foreign Policy, HMSO
Fest, Joachim, Hitler, Penguin, 1974
Hitler, Adolf, translated by Ralph Manheim, Mein Kampf, Pimlico (an imprint of Random House UK Ltd)
Noakes, J, & Pridham, G, Nazism 1919-1945. 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader, University of Exeter Press, 1988
Peukert, Detlev, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Oppositiona and Racism in Everyday Life, Penguin, 1987
Reuth, Ralf G, Goebbels: The Life of Jospeh Goebbels, Constable, 1993
Taylor, AJP, The Origins of the Second World War, Penguin, 1961
Williams, B, Modern Japan, Longman, 1969
A recording owned by The Decca Record Company Limited of Winston Churchill's speeches:
First address as Prime Minister of Great Britain, May 19, 1940
"A colossal military disaster" - statement to the House, June 4, 1940
Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements if there have been any omissions.
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Interactive Learning Productions are...
Research : Sarah Davies (Manager), Joanna Daymond, Deborah Hall, John Hobart, Peter Hutchinson, Sarah Radford, Lee Standen, Neil Thurman, Martin Torjussen.
Application Programming : Gary Eaton, Denise Edwardson, Ashley Hindmarsh, Mike Johnson, Steve Li, Kevin McFarlane, Simon Rigden, Garry Self, Kevin Simpson, Martin Welsh.
Library Programming : Chris Hurst (Senior Programmer), Nick Ind (Senior Programmer), Rob Bavey, Charles Gay-Jones, Craig Murphy, Steve Varty.
