During the Cold War era it was battle of one way of life versus another

Arms RaceSpace RaceOlympics Medal Race

Just to name a few….oh nuclear bombs race

The most important event from 1947 to 1992 was the ?????

Cold War

The Cold War…..More than any other war this was based on propaganda and its achievement marked in public morale. That is, how it made people FEEL!

Sporting competition and its terminology provided concrete victories in lieu of battles and hot warfare. “Hot” war was actually shooting and killing. Would escalate to thermo nuclear war…..very bad!

team sports were very important!!!

Team…nation…same thing!!

So the Soviets made it a priority to win.

The USSR flouted Olympic rules demanding the participation of amateurs only,

They enlisted all of their athletes into the military Their military service was to train them full time in their sports.

They also used doping to gain an edge.

The Soviets Cheat!!!!

1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, FinlandThe Soviet Union competes in its first Summer Olympic Games. Concerned that Cold War rivalries would lead to violence, East Bloc athletes are housed in a separate Olympic village from their western competitors.

1956 Winter Olympics – Cortina D’Ampezzo, ItalyThe Soviets make a commanding Winter Games debut by collecting more medals than any other nation. The Soviet ice hockey team dethrones the Canadians and foreshadows the dominance it will enjoy between 1964 and 1992.

Country G S B TOT

Soviet Union

7 3 6 16

Austria 4 3 4 11Sweden 2 4 4 10Finland 3 3 1 7

United States

2 3 2 7

Switzerland 3 2 1 6Norway 2 1 1 4Canada 0 1 2 3Italy 1 2 0 3Germany 1 0 1 2Hungary 0 0 1 1Japan 0 1 0 1Poland 0 0 1 1

1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, AustraliaThe People’s Republic of China becomes the first nation to boycott the Olympic Games, objecting to the participation of Taiwan under the name “Formosa.”

The Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland also boycott the games in response to the Soviet invasion of Hungary.

With tension between the Soviets and Hungarians high, fistfights erupt during a water polo match between the two nations. One player leaves the pool bloodied.

1966 European Track and Field Championships – Budapest, HungaryRumors circulate that top athletes from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are actually men disguised as women. In response, competition officials launch “sex tests” to verify that no men attempt to compete in women’s competitions.

Polish athlete Ewa Klobukowska was revealed to be a man in 1967

1972 Summer Olympics – Munich, GermanyThe Munich games will be forever remembered for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and one policeman by Palestinian terrorists

1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, CanadaNow at full throttle, the East German doping program helps the small nation of 17 million win 90 Olympic medals, including 11 of the 13 possible gold medals for women’s aquatic events. Once again, only the Superpowers – the Soviets and Americans – collect more.

1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, USSRAfter the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, the Carter administration exerts tremendous pressure on the US Olympic Committee’s House of Delegates to vote for an Olympic boycott. The vote to boycott passes by more than 2 to 1, and the United States, along with 64 of its allies – including Canada – do not attend the games. It is the largest boycott in Olympic history.

1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, USAThe Soviet Union and 14 of its East Bloc allies refuse to compete, citing safety concerns for its athletes. Most agree the Soviets stage the boycott in retaliation for the US-led boycott of the Moscow games four years earlier.

1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea

The Soviets defeat the traditionally dominant American basketball team, 82-76. After the games, the International Amateur Basketball Federation voted to allow NBA players to compete in the Olympics, and during the next Olympic cycle, the Dream Team was born.

1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain

Nothing, the Cold War is over….sort of

Don’t forget the Dream Team.

How did the 70s go?

How did people feel about the US?

Folks in the US thought the US was going down the tubes….

Going to Hell in a hand basket

John Wayne diesElvis dies

1970 Kent State

Anti war protestersNational Guard shoots…4 dead…9 wounded

Due to geopolitical events during the 1970's, the U.S. and other major industrialized nations experienced shortages in petroleum.

In October, 1973, members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) raised prices and cut production of oil largely in response to U.S. support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

What’s the Yom Kippur War?

also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6, to October 26, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt and Syria. The war began on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria crossing the cease-fire lines in the Sinai and Golan Heights, respectively, which had been captured by Israel in 1967 during the Six-Day War.

Nixon resigns

Watergate….abuse of power

Our world

Stagflation is term that describes a "perfect storm" of economic bad news: high unemployment, slow economic growth and high inflation. The term was born out of the prolonged economic slump of the 1970s, when the United States experienced spiking inflation in the face of a shrinking economy, something economists had previously thought to be impossible.

Lost in Vietnam…..the military’s moral was very low

Fall of Siagon in April 1975

The troops deployed to Vietnam in 1965 were among the best in history.

However, in 1971 the Armed Forces Journal reported that, "The morale, discipline and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at any time in this century."

This breakdown in morale came despite limited one-year combat tours and hedonistic "rest and relaxation" breaks.

Historian Cecil Curry says that GIs saw themselves to be "the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful," as many noted on their helmets.

Fragging

Vietnam clip

bridge

Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979

You have to know how bad the 70s were to really, really appreciate the next movie.

Just like the Hollywood sign was falling down, that is how people felt about America in the 70s.

The 70s, well, Sucked!