What historical events did Forrest Gump choose as the background of the story development?

The film tells the life experience of the protagonist Forrest Gump from the 1950s to the early 1980s, which is the magnificent 30 years after World War II in the United States. The film reflects this history in two ways, that is, the historical events in the documentary and the characters and the fictional plots and characters in the play are combined with special effects in the same picture for direct narration, and only the picture or logo or a few lines of text are used for indirect narration. Directly recognized historical and cultural events are

The riots in Tasca, Alabama

On June 1963, 1 1, george wallace, the governor of Alabama, known as Mussolini of the United States, blocked the entrance to the registration building of the University of Alabama in Tasca and read a statement with symbolic threats in an attempt to prevent two black students from enrolling. He said that Alabama would never make concessions on the issue of educational apartheid, openly boycotting the federal troops sent by President John F. Kennedy and publicly boycotting the federal government's dismissal of him. 1963 is a year of vigorous development of American civil rights movement. Young President Kennedy decided to conform to the torrent of social development, expressed his personal support for the revolution, and did a lot of work in the fields of black voting rights, education, employment and so on. Kennedy once considered that if there were riots in Tuscaloosa, he would address the nation through television. After the unrest subsided, while people's attention was still focused on this issue, he delivered a speech to the people: "This is not a regional issue, nor is it a party issue, or even a legal and legislative issue. We are mainly faced with a moral problem. This issue is as old as the Bible and as clear as the US Constitution. " We have initially convinced a moral problem. It is as old as a script and as clear as the US Constitution.) Before that, no American president has so frankly admitted the injustice of racial discrimination and bravely assumed the moral responsibility of eliminating racial discrimination. On August 28th of the same year, a large-scale public procession was held in Washington, D.C.-the March for Employment and Freedom in Washington. On that day, more than 200,000 people from different states and races peacefully maintained a warm sense of dignity and listened to Martin Luther King's exciting speech "I have a dream" on the stone steps of the Lincoln Monument. President Kennedy welcomed the leaders of the parade at the White House and admired their organizational ability, because there was no riot on that scale in the parade.

(2) President Kennedy met with the recruiting team of college students in the United States.

President Kennedy received the National College Football Team at the White House. Forrest Gump saw photos of Marilyn Monroe and Kennedy and his younger brother Robert Kennedy in the president's private bathroom. Monroe died on 1962, which was publicly reported as suicide. 1On October 22nd, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The Warren Commission's subsequent investigation announced that the murderer was Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days later, Oswald was assassinated by jack ruby, and Kennedy's assassination became a permanent mystery. 1968 in April, a few months after the assassination of Martin Luther king Jr. in Memphis, Robert Kennedy, then the attorney general and presidential candidate, was assassinated in Chicago, and then the upsurge of civil rights movement subsided. Just a few minutes in the film tell us the life and death of these men of the hour and hint at the mystery behind them.

(3) Vietnam War (President Johnson awarded the Vietnam War Heroes Congressional Medal)

Forrest Gump, the hero of the film, was injured in the Vietnam War to save his comrades. He was invited to the White House for the second time, and President Johnson personally awarded him the Congressional Medal. Before the film began, President Johnson's speech about the escalation of the Vietnam War in the United States was being broadcast on TV. 1961may, the United States sent the first batch of soldiers to Vietnam to participate in intervening in the civil war in Vietnam. 1On August 4th, 964, President Johnson claimed that the American destroyer USS Maddox DD-73 1 was attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Tokyo Bay, and urged Congress to authorize it to use force in Southeast Asia. On the 7th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed unanimously, and the Senate passed the "Tokyo Bay Resolution" with a vote of 8 1 2, authorizing Johnson to "take all necessary means and measures to assist any country in the collective defense treaty in Southeast Asia". The Tokyo Bay incident marked the expansion of the Vietnam issue, and the US government officially intervened in the Vietnam War. 1969, President Nixon was forced by the heavy casualties of the war, and the domestic anti-war voice was high, and he announced that he began to withdraw troops. 1973, all American troops withdrew to China, and the Vietnam War ended.

(4) Ping-pong diplomacy

Forrest Gump, the hero, visited China as a member of the American table tennis team because of his superb table tennis skills, and played an epoch-making game with the Chinese national table tennis team. This is the famous ping-pong diplomacy in which small balls push big balls.

Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States in June 1969. In order to increase the capital against the Soviet Union, the Nixon administration began to seek ways to improve its Asian policy. In July, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger paid a secret visit to China as a special envoy. The two sides exchanged views on the international situation and Sino-US relations, and reached an agreement on President Nixon's visit to China. On February 26th, 1972, Nixon and his party paid a one-week historic visit to China and issued the Sino-US Joint Communique with the China government, which marked a good beginning for the normalization of relations between the two countries. The reconciliation between the United States and China has a great influence on easing the tension in Asia and the world. Due to the situation, Japan urgently demanded the normalization of diplomatic relations with China, and the Soviet Union began to ease its relations with the United States and Western Europe.

(5) Watergate Incident

The protagonist Forrest Gump visited China on behalf of the United States. After returning home, he was received by the President again, and was arranged by President Nixon to stay in a more modern and advanced hotel-Watergate Complex. That night, Forrest Gump complained to the staff in the building that someone in the opposite building was lighting a flashlight, as if looking for a fuse, and the light of the flashlight interfered with his sleep. This painting reflects the truth of Watergate.

During the period of 1973, the Nixon administration encountered an unprecedented crisis of confidence under the excavation report of two young journalists in Washington post. According to the investigation, Nixon used the campaign team to spy on the Democratic Party's campaign strategy in June 1972, and installed a bug in the Watergate Building of the Democratic Party's headquarters. 1974 The audio tape found in the White House exposed Nixon's attempt to cover up the truth. The exposure of "Watergate Incident" caused an uproar in the United States and triggered the impeachment of the President by Congress. On August 9, Nixon resigned, becoming the first and only president in American history to resign because of successful impeachment.

In addition to the political events directly confessed in the film, the political changes in the past 30 years after the war are mainly explained by short pictures or logos or a few lines, such as the successive presidents after Nixon, including President Ford, President Carter and President Reagan.

After Forrest Gump and Jenny meet in Washington, Jenny takes Forrest Gump to meet her boyfriend Wesley, who is the chairman of SDS (Student Degeneration Association) at the University of California, Berkeley. Also present at that time was the Black Penther, a black civil rights movement. A member of the Panthers Committee declared that their task was to help blacks in need, oppose sending blacks to Vietnam and sacrifice for a country that hated them. The sign on the wall reads "Colombia is the enemy of all blacks". Then Jenny and Wesley leave by bus with the coordinates "Berkeley-D.C.". Jenny's dress at this time is a typical hippie style.

The political and cultural information to be conveyed here is very rich. The famous Black Panther Party is a black organization with violent tendencies. Later, a branch of this organization was divided into underground meteorological organizations engaged in the black civil rights movement. On September 24th, 1964, 22-year-old philosophy students at the University of California, Berkeley, Mario Guan Mingsheng and Art Gordon Gerry, etc. Launch a "freedom of speech movement" on campus to protest against the school authorities' ban on talking about the civil rights movement and making anti-war speeches on campus. The time is 10/0 to 2, 10. The prelude of the anti-cultural movement began, and then gradually spread to other institutions and schools in the United States.