Forest Gump Timeline

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was a long and costly armed conflict.The war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s)
  • Elvis Presley "hound dog"

    Elvis Presley "hound dog"

    Elvis Presley's debut
  • America gets Involved in the Vietnamese War

    America gets Involved in the Vietnamese War

    America enters the Vietnamese War and helps the people of Vietnam win
  • Desegregation of University of Alabama

    Desegregation of University of Alabama

    University of Alabama lets 2 black students attend school with white students
  • The march to Freedom

    The march to Freedom

    It was a march for racial freedom and equalities
  • JFK Assassanation

    JFK Assassanation

    JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
  • KKK

    KKK

    The KKK was created by Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Watergate Scandel

    Watergate Scandel

    President Nixon was accused of being apart of the scandal the Watergate hotel
  • Hurricane Carmine

    Hurricane Carmine

    Hurricane Carmine Strikes America
  • Outbreak of HIV

    Outbreak of HIV

    On January 1st, 1980, the HIV virus came to America
  • John Lennon's Death

    John Lennon's Death

    John Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman
  • Fail of Assassination of Reagan

    Fail of Assassination of Reagan

    While leaving a speaking at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C.