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The Klu Klux Klan
In the movie Forrest was talking about where he got his name form and it was from a war hero named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest started the Klu Klux Klan on December 24, 1865. -
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Vietnam war
In the movie Forrest Gump went to fight in the Vietnam war after he got out of college. They were fight against communist. In the middle of a gun fight Forrest Gump ran back into the fight to save his whole team. -
Elvis Presley
In the movie Forrest's mom was renting out rooms in their house for people to stay in this one person named Elvis Presley stayed with them. One night Elvis was playing one of his song and Forrest was teaching him how to dance. -
The Hippie Movement
After Forrest Gump got his medal of honor he got caught in the hippie movement when he was look at the monuments. They were protesting about the war and why the war is bad. -
Smiley Face
In the movie Forrest was running and someone runs up and asked him for a idea when he wipes is face off on a t shirt it comes out to be a smiley face so he put it on a shirt. It was started by a guy named Harvey Ball who created is the t shirt in Massachusetts. -
John F. Kennedy
In the movie Forrest Gump was a all-american at the college named Alabama. They were about to meet JFK but he drank to many diet cokes. On November 22, 1963 John F Kennedy was assassinated when he was in a parade. -
Alabama college desegregated
Forrest was there when George Wallace tried to stop a black couple from entering the University of Alabama.In 1963, the southern states were slowly beating the segregation. This lead up to the attempted murder towards Wallace that got him paralyzed in 1972. -
The Black Panther Party
In the movie Jenny takes Forrest into a bar where they were staying with the black panther party. They were fighting for equal rights. When Forrest got into a fight at the black panther hangout they kicked him out. -
The moon landing
In the movie Forrest was watching the moon landing on live tv when someone showed him about ping pong. In 1969 Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
In the movie, Forrest Gump becomes very adept at playing ping pong.He was so good that he is asked to play on the American team against the Chinese. This started cause a american missed his bus so he had to ride the Chinese bus with their team . -
The Watergate Scandal
In the movie Forrest was staying in the hotel across from were the Watergate happened. In 1972 people broke into the Watergate hotel to steal papers that would help Nixon win the next election. -
Hurricane Carmen
Hurricane Carmen was the storm shown in the movie that let Forrest and Dan to takeover the shrimping business after all the boats were destroyed. In 1974, the hurricane Carmen hits the southern USA, including Bayou La Batre. -
The Company Apple
In 1976, Dan tells Forrest he invested their money on a "fruit company". This fruit company was Apple, it was created by that time and turned into a huge profit very quickly. -
John Lennon
In the movie Forrest Gump is asked to sit in on a television interview with John Lennon and Dick Carret. John Lennon was an English musician and singer who was one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Beatles Fellow, Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century but, on December 8, 1980 John Lennon was assassinated in New York City, NY by a a mad fan that couldn' t see one of his shows because it was sold out. -
HIV Outbreak
In 1981, when Forrest meets Jenny again, she says she has a virus that doctors don't know. In 1981 marks the AIDS outbreak in the World.
