Map Based Multimedia Tool on Pacific Theatre in World War II

Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-53).Maps have been used for depicting data of all kinds in the educational community for\ud many years. A standout amongst the rapidly changing methods of teaching is through the development of interactive and dynamic maps.\ud The emphasis of the thesis is to develop an intuitive map based multimedia tool,\ud which provides a timeline of battles and events in the Pacific theatre of World War II. The\ud tool contains summaries of major battles and commanders and has multimedia content\ud embedded in it. The primary advantage of this Map tool is that one can quickly know about all the battles and campaigns of the Pacific Theatre by accessing Timeline of Battles in each region or Individual Battles in each region or Summary of each Battle in an interactive way. This tool can be accessed via any standard web browser and motivate the user to know more about the battles involved in the Pacific Theatre. It was made responsive using Google maps API, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS