HIS 211 Exam 1

What is 1?

Germany

What is 2?

Romania

What is 3?

Georgia

What is 4?

The Caucasus

What year were the Olympics in Helsinki/?

1952

What year were the Melbourne Olympics?

1956

What year war the Rome Olympics?

1960

What year did Cassius Clay, Wilma Rudolph, and Ralph Boston win gold medals?

1960

What year was the Sino-Soviet Split?

1961

What year was the Munich Olympics/Terrorists attacks against Israeli athletes at the olympic village?

1972

What year was the Montreal Olympics?

1976

What year did Nadia Comaneci win gold medals and score a perfect 10?

1976

What year was the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?

1979

What year was the Moscow olympics?

1980

What year did the US boycott the olympic games?

1980

What year was the Los Angeles Olympics?

1984

What year did the USSR boycott the Olympic games?

1984

What year was the fall of Ceausescu’s regime in Bulgaria/The fall of the Wall of Berlin?

1989

What year was the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

1991

What year was the Blood in the water match (Soviet against Hungary)?

1956

What year did the USSR first take part in the olympics?

1952

The 1950’s fitness crisis in the US

American children and young adults were becoming less physically fit than their peers in other countries

The James E. Sullivan Award

Annual American sports award presented by the AAU since 1930 to the nation’s most outstanding athlete

Emmett Till

Murder of a young teenage boy. Became an important Civil Rights symbol in the United States

The Civil Rights Movement

Aimed to abolish racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans

Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali

One of the greatest American boxers in history who converted to the Nation of Islam and refused military induction

Wilma Rudolph

American track and field gold medalist who overcame childhood polio and became an international sports icon

Joseph Stalin

Dictator of the Soviet Union. Used the Gulag system to control the population

Lavrenti Beria

Head of the NKVD (soviet secret police). He took over the dynamo sports organization. he used his political power to manipulate soccer

Soviet Sports societies

Organized around voluntary sports societies (VSS). Funded by trade unions and state. Sports was used to create the “new person”

Dynamo

Soccer club. Close connection to the Stasi

Lev Yashin

Soviet soccer player. One of the greatest goalkeepers in soccer history.

Nikita Khrushchev

led the soviet union during the height of the cold war. delivered the “secret speech” which denounced the atrocities and cult personalities of stalin

Alexei Mogilny

first soviet hockey player to flee to the NHL

Leonid Breznev

Soviet union general secretary. led the coalition to remove Khrushchev from power

Mikhail Mogilny

final leader of the soviet union. played a central role in ending the cold war

GDR - German Democratic Republic

socialist state commonly known as east germany. had the stasi

Katarina Witt

German figure skater. under stasi surveillance. “the most beautiful face of socialism”

Nicole Ceausescu

president of romania. built the securitate. Eliminated free speech, and censored the media

Nadia Comaneci

Romanian gymnast. received the first ever 10 at the age of 14 at the 1976 olympics.