Forrest Gump Timeline
Resignation of Richard Nixon (1974)
Beatles (1964)
Vietnam War (1964)
Elvis Presley (1956)
Black Panther Movement (1966)
- President Nixon was the first president to resign.
- It was on the television so America can see it and he had saluted with the peace sign and took off in a helicopter.
- After his resign some men were arrested for wiretapping the Democratic National Committee Headquarters.
- The war had started in 1955 but the U.S. got involved in 1964.
- President Eisenhower had supported Diem and South Vietnam in the war.
- Boats had attacked U.S. destroyers and the president had ordered to bomb the enemy North Vietnam.
- Over 3 million people had died in this war.
- The leaders of the movement were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
- They had practiced self defense and just wanted political equality.
- They believed in Malcom X beliefs.
- In1967 Huey Newton was arrested for killing a cop.
- John Lennon had started the band but the other band members were Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney,and George Harrison.
- There first song that hit the charts was in 1962 which was Love Me Do.
- There first appearance in America was February 7,1964.
- When they split up in 1969 John Lennon was the first to leave the group.
- He had became a musical sensation in 1956 after his contract was sold to RCA Victor.
- The genres of music that influenced him were pop, country and gospel.
- Elvis had managed to have a song at NO.1 for 6 months of the year.
- Elvis had also been an actor and made 4 movies.
- Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs were really big into electronics in high school.
- Wozniak had made the first apple product known as the Apple I.
- They had both worked together and wanted to sell it but it didn't really take off.
- It was when the Apple II came it was popular because it was the first computer with a plastic case and color graphics.
- Water Gate Scandal (1972)
Moon landing (1969)
Hippie Movement
Attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan (1981)
University of Alabama Desegregated (1963)
- The first americans to land on the moon were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11.
- They had brought home samples of Basalts and igneous rocks.
- They had put two american flags on the moon.
- In the mid late 1970s they had found the first case but didn't know what it was or how to cure it.
- It had spread to five continents already by 1980.
- It was spread by sexual contact and blood.
- Hippie people had a motto that was "If it feels good,do it."
- They had practiced peace, love, and freedom.
- Most of them used drugs like marijuana and LSD.
- They had celebrated at music festivals like Woodstock.
- Numerous men had tried to break in the Democratic National Committee.
- A guard had saw the security tape and had called the police.
- President Nixon was supposedly not involved because his former Attorney General had approved of it.
- Governor Wallace had promised the white people that there would be segregation in the schools.
- President Kennedy ordered troops to be sent to the University of Alabama to desegregate the school.
- After Governor Wallace had been overruled by the president two African Americans had been enrolled in the University of Alabama.
- John Hinckely Jr. had shot at Reagan when he was leaving a speaking event in Washington.
- The movie Taxi Driver had influenced and gave Hinckley ideas to assassinate Reagan.
- Hinckley first shot had missed the president.
- The president was only wounded by three other people had gotten shot.