Birthday Gift Set: 1949 Flickback Book & DVD Plus a Decade Puzzle

This Flickback Gift Set is a combination of Flickback Media's 1949 DVD Greeting Card, 1940's Decade Puzzle, and 1949 What A Year It Was! book, together they make a perfect gift set for 65th Birthdays, Anniversaries & Reunions. The 1949 DVD features over 30 minutes of newsreels and archival footage covering Politics & World Events, People in the News, Sports, Movies, Fashion, Pop Culture, Music, Cars, Births, and Passings. The 1949 WAY Book is 176 pages of black & white images and historical facts from the worlds of politics, sports, fashion, pop culture and more. The 1940's Decade Newsmakers Puzzle is a 500-piece puzzle with a collage of the faces of historical figures, pop culture icons, sports heroes, and more. When you're finished, enjoy guessing the names of the faces. World War II dominated the decade of the 1940's, with a face-off between Axis and Allied powers in Europe, with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor initially bringing the United States into the War. Big Three leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference to discuss post-war reorganization of Europe. President Harry S. Truman ends World War II when he authorizes the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the only wartime use of nuclear weapons in history. After the War, Nazi leaders are prosecuted in the Nuremburg Trials. American soldiers returning from the war start families and settle into houses in newly developed suburbs. David Ben-Gurion becomes the first President of the new state of Israel, gaining identity following the British Mandate for Palestine. Joe Louis takes back the heavyweight title while Mauri Rose wins the Indianapolis 500. Through and through, the forties was a decade full of people, places, and events that changed the course of human history forever.

• 1949 DVD Greeting Card featuring over 30 minutes of historical B&W Footage
• 500-Piece 1940's Decade Newsmaker's Puzzle with Trivia Challenge
• 176-Page 1949 Hardcover Coffee Table Book