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Forrest is born
January 1, 1944, Forrest Gump is born and named after a relative named Nathen Bedford Forrest. the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacy group to tried to remove civil rights from black people -
Elvis Arrives
January 1, 1956. Elvis moves into Forrest's house that his mother turned into a bed and breakfast. Forrest shows Elvis his Famous dance steps. Elvis Aaron Presley is known for the "King of Rock". he was born in 1935 and died in 1977 only at 42 years of age. -
Racial integration at the University of Alabama
July 11, 1963, Forrest was at Alabama University that day George Wallace was governor of Alabama, Wallace was known for his resistance against racial integration, president Kennedy brought guards to remove Wallace so the black students could register. -
Forrest Joins all American Football Team
Forrest Gump meets JFK as an All American with the University of Alabama football team. An All American team is an amateur sports group that is honored for being that best at that sport. -
JFK Assassination
Forrest sees the murder of JFK in the news. John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. Kenedy was shot in Dallas, Texas when he drove from the airport to the middle of Dallas in an open car. -
Forrest Fights in Vietnam
Forrest is n the military and fights in Vietnam, Vietnam was a conflict between the United States and Vietnam, the USA had a terrible defeat against Vietnam. -
Forrest Receives Medal of Honor
Forrest Gump receives the Medal of Honor for his courage in the Vietnam war, he gets the medal from Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States -
Hippy Movement
Jenny joins the hippy culture, the hippy cultures symbol was peace and their slogan was "Make Love, not war" Hippies were against the greediness of society, they wanted everybody to be happy and wanted war to be replaced with love instead. -
Fake News
Forrest sees the first moon landing for the United States, the moon landing was big for the USA and NASA they defeated the USSR and showed that we were the best with technology. With a little be of travel Neil Armstrong landed on the moon with Apollo 11. On the moon, he placed an American Flag to show that the US was first. -
Watergate Scandal
Forrest hears a bunch of noise and notices flashlights in a room across from his, so Forrest calls the front desk, and turns out that is was a burglary on the National Democrats committee. They rented offices in the Watergate building. a group of people affiliated with Nixon attempted to break in and take important documents. Security discovers the break-in and they got arrested. -
Apple
Lieutenant Dan decides to invest in Apple and he also tells Forrest Gump to do so also. Apple is an IT-Company that have created for example the iPhone, iPad and MP3 player. -
AIDS/HIV
Jenny (Forrest's Wife) passes away because of AIDs. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.
