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The Olympics are a competition where athletes from different countries come to compete for medals. In 1980 they were held in Moscow during the cold war

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How did the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan affect the Olympics?

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How did the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan affect the Olympics?

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Many countries refused to send their athletes after the invasion as an act of retaliation against the Soviet Union

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How were the 1972 Olympics impacted by the Cold War? Explain that event.

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How were the 1972 Olympics impacted by the Cold War? Explain that event.

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Political overtones made the Cold War increase and heat up. the Summer Games in Munich were deemed brutality when Palestinian terrorists busted into the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli commission, and accepted nine remainders of something captive. In the end, all nine athletes and individual men were canceled in what enhanced the most secret time in the modern Olympic past. Although not straightforwardly even to Cold War campaigning, Munich demonstrated to the world that the games may be efficiently highjacked by radical groups wanting worldwide attention.

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What is a boycott? How did this play a role in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics? Who hosted and who would not come? 

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What is a boycott? How did this play a role in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics? Who hosted and who would not come? 

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A boycott is when someone withdrawals from commercial or social relations. Since the late invasion of Afghanistan, many nations took themselves out of the Moscow competition - 65 nations refused and only 80 countries sent athletes. Chile, Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, South Korea, and the People's Republic of China were just some of the nations that refused to send athletes.

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How were the Olympics a symbol of Cold War competition?

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How were the Olympics a symbol of Cold War competition?

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The USSR saw the Olympics as a display of Soviet power

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Which nation was more dominant in the Cold War era Olympics? What sports were they the most dominant in?

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Which nation was more dominant in the Cold War era Olympics? What sports were they the most dominant in?

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The Soviet team was the most dominant team in the Olympics at that time. They were dominant in Basketball, Volleyball, and Soccer.

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What 3 comparisons could be made between the Cold War Olympics to present-day Olympics?

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What 3 comparisons could be made between the Cold War Olympics to present-day Olympics?

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1. Most of the events are the same today as they were. During the cold war, popular games were basketball, volleyball, soccer, water polo, hockey, and more. Today those are still some of the most popular games watched today along with gymnastics and tennis.

2. Germany and the US are both top teams with medals to this day. Germany has won a total of 974 Olympic medals putting them at number three overall, and the US in first with 2636 Olympic medals.

3. Germany’s best events in the winter Olympics. In 1980 the Soviet Union wom more gold medals but  East Germany won more medals overall. Germany has continued to stay ranking high in the winter Olympics and this year they were placed 2nd in the Winter Olympics.

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What are 3 ways the Olympics created a competition between the US and USSR?

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What are 3 ways the Olympics created a competition between the US and USSR?

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1. Many athletes from lots of countries resigned one after another from playing in the 1980 Moscow Olympics after the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan as an act of boycott. Competition grew when the following Olympics were held in Los Angles and the Soviet Union boycotted the games but was one of the only ones to do so.
2. The Miracle on Ice happened which put a lot of tension between the US and the USSR. Washington and Moscow viewed the Olympic medal rankings as a competition between democracy and communism to determine which system could produce better athletes.
3. USSR may have taken the Olympics too seriously because they wanted power. The Games provided an opportunity to show the dominance of the Soviet Union to the world. The games were used as a tool of politics; a means of displaying dominance to the world.