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Klu Klux Klan
In the movie Forrest Gump says that his mother named his after the civil war hero Nathan Bedford Forrest. This man was one of the founders of the Klu Klux Klan in during the 1800's. the KKK was a group of American people that hated African Americans and many other different races.
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Apple
Forrest Gump gets mail from Apple because him and Dane decides to put money in the Apple Company. they did that because they didn't want to worry about money. Apple is an multinational company that designs and develops consumer electronics.
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Elvis Presley
Forrest Gump invents the famous Elvis Presley dance, he does that by dancing to his own version of Hound Dog while Elvis was playing Hound Dog to him. a few weeks later, Forrest was walking down the street with his mom when he saw a tv with Elvis doing his dance. Elvis was a famous singer and actor in the 20th century.
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Vietnam War
the Vietnam war was one of the Greatest wars of the 20th century. This war was a big event to America because this was the first war the U.S lost. also because the government was keeping secrets from the citizens of America. the Vietnam War was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia from November 1955 to the fall of Saigon in April 1975.
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president Kennedy
Forrest meets president Kennedy when he was a football player on the Alabama university football team. A couple of weeks later Forrest was watching television when the news showed how President Kennedy got assassinated. John F. Kennedy was our 35th president of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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Southern schools getting desegregated
Forrest was walking through the university when George Wallace tried to stop a black couple from entering the university of Alabama. the movie also shows the attempted murder on Wallace which got him paralyzed. George Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama.
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Moon Landing
Forrest was watching tv when the first U.S moon landing was shown on tv. the U.S moon landing was a big victory for the U.S and NASA because they defeated USSR and showed them that the U.S was the best with new and improved technology.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Forrest gets the Medal of Honor because of his courage for joining the Vietnam war. He receives the reward from president Johnson. Johnson was our 36th president, he was president from 1963 until 1969 he was a democrat. until he got murdered and then JFK took his place.
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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 one of the founders of the Beatles. the Beatles was very famous in the pop culture in the 60's and the 70's. the Beatles helped contribute to the Vietnam war and helped the hippies express their feelings and their spirituality.
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ping pong diplomacy
In the movie Forrest was offered money to play ping pong because he was so good at it, he went to china for a tournament to play against other members who play ping pong. The Ping-pong diplomacy is the exchange of table tennis players between the United States and People's Republic of China in the early 1970s.
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Smiley Face
Forrest Gump was running and while he was running a man asked him for a t-shirt logo and Forrest wiped his muddy face on the t-shirt and in time the t-shirt became a very famous shirt in the 70's. Forrest was running because Jenny had left him before he woke up and he didn't want to think about it so he just ran with no destination.
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the Watergate Scandal
which leads to Forrest watching the burglars breaking into one of the hotel rooms and steal reports for the presidential election. This Historical event was important because the was the first president to resign because he lied under oath. The Watergate Scandal was a Major Political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s which was following a break-in by five men at the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex.
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Hurricane Carmen
This hurricane hit the Southern Region even Bayou La Batre, and the people who sold fish, crabs, and crawfish had a slow but steady decrease in sales because they suffered the ecological effects after the hurricane.
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AIDS/HIV
in the movie there is a scene where Jenny start to get into drugs like cocaine and heroin. this caused Jenny to catch HIV/AIDS. She became sick from the virus and the doctors didn't know what had caused her to get sick and they don't have a cure for it.
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Forrest's Mother
a couple years after Forrest came back from the war he purchase a shrimp boat in honor of Bubba. While he was fishing he got a phone calling saying his mother is sick so he ran back home to care for his mother. a few weeks later his mother passed, and Forrest finds out that she had cancer.
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