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Ku Klux Klan
Forrest Gump's Mother named him him after Nathan Bedford Forrest which was the founder of the Ku Kux Klan. They were a post-Civil War American secret society advocating white supremacy. 2 : a 20th century secret fraternal group held to confine its membership to African-born White Christians. And still some unknown ones. [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ku-Klux-Klan] -
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Elvis Presley
Forrest Gump was doing Elvis Presley moves in his room. Elvis Presley Was a twentieth-century American rock n roll singer, known for his distinctive throaty tone in songs such as "Hound Dog" and "All Shook Up" [https://www.biography.com/people/elvis-presley-9446466] -
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John Lennon
Forrest Gump was on the TV show with John Lennon. John Lennon was the leader of co-leader of the British rock group the Beatles, author and graphic artist, solo recording artist, and collaborator with Yoko Ono on recording and other art projects. [https://www.biography.com/people/john-lennon-9379045] -
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Vietnam War
Forrest Gump fought in the Vietnam War. It was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in south Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. [https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history] -
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Hippies
Were people that does rock and roll, drugs, and sex. Plus Hippies felt alienated from middle-class society, which they saw as dominated by materialism and repression, and they developed their own distinctive lifestyle. They favoured long hair and casual, often unconventional, dress, sometimes in “psychedelic” colours. Many males grew beards, and both men and women wore sandals and beads. [https://www.britannica.com/topic/hippie] -
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JFK
John F. Kennedy parlayed an elite education and a reputation as a military hero into successful run for congress in 1946 and for the Senate in 1952. As president Kennedy confronted mounting cold war tensions in Cuba, Vietnam and other places.He was assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas. [https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy] -
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Schoolhouse stand-in
This is the situation Forrest Gump was talking about the coons.The "stand in the schoolhouse door" incident was Alabama Governor George Wallace's symbolic opposition to school integration imposed by the federal government. The June 11, 1963, action occurred in the doorway of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama and was intended to prevent the enrollment of two black students. [http://www.businessinsider.com/george-wallaces-stand-in-the-school-house-door-2013-6] -
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Vietnam Protests
These were the people that didn't want to get drafted in the Vietnam war and they said it wasn't their war to fight. [https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests] -
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Black Panther
The people who protect black communities from harm and danger from whites. 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members. [https://www.history.com/topics/black-panthers] -
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The Moon Landing
The moon landing is shown on TV in Forrest Gump. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969. On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 touched down on the Moon. This was not only our final Moon landing, but the last time we left low Earth orbit. [https://www.space.com/16758-apollo-11-first-moon-landing.html] -
Smiley Face
In the movie, a man asks Forrest Gump for ideas of T-shirt designs. Forrest Gump wipes his muddy face on a T-shirt and the movie shows a smiley face on the T-shirt. which soon becomes a famous and very popular symbol in the United States It is during the 1970's that the smiley face was invented to show a stylized representation of a smiling human face. It is also attributed with the quote "Have a Nice Day!"[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face-2058483/] -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
In the movie, Forrest Gump becomes very adept at playing ping pong. In fact, he is so good that he is asked to play on the American team against the Chinese. This is a clear parallel to the term Ping Pong Diplomacy which was used between the Americans and the Chinese. The term comes from an incident when American Ping Pong player, Glenn Cowan missed his team bus during the 31st World Table Tennis Championship. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ping-pong-diplomacy-60307544/] -
Watergate Scandal
This was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s. Following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. [https://www.history.com/topics/watergate] -
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The Hurricane Carmen
In the Forrest Gump film, the hurricane is noted for having decimated the shrimping industry of Bayou La Batre. Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season. A destructive and widespread storm, Carmen originated as a tropical disturbance that emerged from Africa toward the end of August. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carmen] -
Apple company
In 1976, Dan tells Forrest he invested their money on a "fruit company". This fruit company was Apple, which was created by that time and turned into a huge profit very quickly. Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. [https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/history-of-apple-steve-jobs-mac-3606104/]
