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Central Concept
Means that the competitive sports like olympics were used to show the politc of their countries by winning the competition.
The sports were important because the countries have a miniwar with each other and with the sport they demostrate what was happing in the war. -
Cold war 1947
Start the Cold War was an on going political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. -
1948 Olympics Games
The first Olympics Games after the begining of the Cold War, that USA use to represent their goverment with his athletes. -
No participation of The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union did not enter this year's Olympics so the USA had an advantage in this event. -
1950s Cold War
In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, and the United Nations and the United States sent troops and military aid. Communist China intervened to support North Korea,the colonial French regime fell in Vietnam and the Cuban resistance movement. -
1952 Helsinki Olympics
The first Olympics that the Soviet Union participated in since the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union would attempt to compete against the USA in basketball as a method of competition as to which government would win. -
1956 Melbourne Olympics
The first Olympics that took place in the southern part of the world, in which the USSR and the USA would take advantage to disseminate and promote their government positions in that part of the world. -
Doping in sports
In the 1950s, the Soviet Olympic team first used male hormones to increase strength and power. The Soviet Union started to devolped programs for doping their athletes -
1960s Cold War
The Soviets began secretly installing missiles in Cuba that could be used to launch nuclear attacks on U.S. cities and A major split had occurred between the Soviet Union and China in 1960 and widened over the years, shattering the unity of the communist bloc. In the meantime, western Europe and Japan achieved dynamic economic growth in the 1950s and ’60s, reducing their relative inferiority to the United States -
1960 Rome Olympics
USA succes in this Olympcis games, the basketball become the most important sport in the cold war that was leader by USA -
Increase of Doping
With the joining of East Germany the use of doping increase, this affected the competition beacuse the persons with doping had more probabilities to win -
1968 Mexico City Olympics
East Germany participate in this Olympics as a individual country and the Chess became an important sport for the Sovietic and the rivalty with USA. -
1970s Cold War
The 1970s saw an easing of Cold War tensions as evinced in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) that led to the SALT I and II agreements of 1972 and 1979, respectively, in which the two superpowers set limits on their antiballistic missiles and on their strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. -
Chess final
Chess was a sport that represent the inteligent of the countires and in the final of 1972 with USA vs Sovietica Union, the USA won and that represent like a win in a battle of the war -
1972 Munich Olympics
The Munich Massacre that killed 11 Israel athletes that made terror and more violence for the time -
1976 Montreal Olympics
USA decrease the perfomnace in this olympics and East Germany was the best country in the olympic.African countries didnt go in symbol of protest to New Zealand -
1980s Cold War
. Major episodes of the renewed Cold War include a US-led boycott of the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics following the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979, and the reciprocal Soviet boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; Soviet deployment of ballistic missiles targeting Western Europe and deployment of Pershing II ballistic missiles in West Germany (1983–1985) targeting the Soviet Union; and NATO’s Able Archer ’83 military exercises that simulated a nuclear attack -
1984 Los Angeles Olympics
The USA boycott the Soviet Union and Aliies of participating in the Olympics -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Germany unify as a 1 big country and Sovietic Union separate and stop compiting in the sports -
1990s Cold War
The Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.