Forrest Gump Timeline Project

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    The Cold War

    The Cold War was a time period of great geopolitical tension between the two major supernations of the time; The U.S. and the Soviet Union. Spanned the presidency's of nine total presidents.

  • Korean War [1]

    Korean War [1]
    First "proxy war" of the Cold war. The Korean War began in 1950 when the Soviet-backed North Koreans invaded South Korea before meeting a counter-offensive by UN Forces, dominated by the United States. The war ended in stalemate in 1953.
    https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/conflicts/korean-war/resources/korean-warstrategic-map/korean-warstrategic-map

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka [2]

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka [2]
    In Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal). The Court agreed with Thurgood Marshall that segregated schooling violated the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of law.
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  • Montgomery Bus Boycott [3]

    Montgomery Bus Boycott [3]
    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus and was arrested. MLK Jr. gathered a city-wide protest in response. Because most all of bus riders were black, they boycotted and choose to walk, carpool, or ride taxis. People nationwide heard of the incident and started lending money to protesters.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4js5Ybd0E8

  • Little Rock Crisis [4]

    Little Rock Crisis [4]
    Governor Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. Eisenhower sent in U.S. paratroopers to ensure the students could attend class. The students were trying to take advantage of the decision reached in the Brown v BOE case.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodolEmUg2g
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    Hippy Movement

    Lashing against all of the tension from the Cold War the Hippy Movement began. Was a counterculture movement that mainly surrounded around sexual freedom, psychedelic drug use, and protesting the Vietnam War. "Make Love, Not War"

  • Greensboro Sit Ins [5]

    Greensboro Sit Ins [5]
    The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.

  • Civil Rights March on Washington [6]

    Civil Rights March on Washington [6]
    The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE

  • John F. Kennedy Assassinated [7]

    John F. Kennedy Assassinated [7]
    John F Kennedy while campaigning in Dallas Texas was assassinated in an open top convertible. Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FCqjClIxuU

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 [8]

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 [8]
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964, ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. In subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and passed additional civil rights legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • Pentagon Papers Published [9]

    Pentagon Papers Published [9]
    The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. As the Vietnam War dragged on, with more than 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by 1968. Daniel Ellsberg photocopied the report and in March 1971 gave the copy to The New York Times, which then published a series of scathing articles based on the report’s most damning secrets.
    https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers

  • Watergate Scandal [11]

    Watergate Scandal [11]
    The Watergate scandal, June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C.The prowlers were connected to Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. Nixon took aggressive steps to cover up the crime afterwards, after his role in the conspiracy was revealed, Nixon resigned. Many Americans questioned their leaders.

  • U.S. Forces Withdraw from South Vietnam [10]

    U.S. Forces Withdraw from South Vietnam [10]
    Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.

  • Bicentennial [12]

    Bicentennial [12]
    The 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the country's most broadly celebrated anniversary. Like the 1876 centennial, it followed a period of social tension that created an ominous backdrop for the event. The bicentennial represented, in the words of the poet Archibald Mac-Leish, "a noble past and an ignoble present brought face to face."

  • Election of 1984 [13]

    Election of 1984 [13]
    American presidential election held on November 6, 1984, in which Republican Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat Walter Mondale, a former U.S. vice president. Reagan won 49 states, amassing 525 electoral votes to Mondale’s 13—one of the biggest landslides in U.S. election history. The election was also notable for being the first time a major party had a woman on its ticket—Geraldine Ferraro, Mondale’s running mate. Reagan would be memorable for his Regaonomics.

  • Iran Contra Affair [14]

    Iran Contra Affair [14]
    Scandal that erupted after the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in hopes of freeing American hostages in Lebanon; money from the arms sales was used to aid the Contras (anti-Communist insurgents) in Nicaragua, even though Congress had prohibited this assistance. Talk of Reagan's impeachment ended when presidential aides took the blame for the illegal activity.

  • Fall of Berlin Wall [15]

    Fall of Berlin Wall [15]
    On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2qq5J5A1s