Transcript cold war game

Olympics
U.S.- Soviet Relations
• The superpowers’ different lifestyles caused
suspicion of each others’ motives and actions.
• This caused friction because the two sides did
not understand each other.
• They believed that their way of life was better,
and tended to despise the way of life of the
other side.
• They wanted to prove that their way of life
was superior – this again caused them to do
things which caused confrontation.
The Miracle on Ice
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The Miracle on Ice
• Winter Olympics 1980.
• The United States national team, made up of
amateur and collegiate players and led by
coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet Union
national team, which had won the gold medal
in six of the seven previous Olympic games.
• The U.S-Soviet game was not the gold metal
game.
• The U.S. needed to defeat Finland to gain
enough points for the gold metal.
– Needing to win to secure the gold medal, Team
USA came back from a 2–1 third period deficit to
defeat Finland 4–2.
Nadia Comăneci
• Romanian gymnast, winner of three gold
medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in
Montreal and the first gymnast to be awarded
a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics
event. She also won two gold medals at the
1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1980 Olympic Boycott
• The 1979 Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan spurred
President Jimmy Carter to
issue an ultimatum on
January 20, 1980, that the
United States would
boycott the Moscow
Olympics if Soviet troops
did not withdraw from
Afghanistan within one
month.
• Iran, although a firm
enemy of the United
States under Ayatollah
Khomeini’s new
theocracy, similarly
boycotted the Moscow
Games, since Khomeini
joined the United
Nations’ and Islamic
Conferences’
condemnations of the
invasion of
Afghanistan.
1984 Soviet Summer Olympic Boycott
• The USSR announced its intentions to boycott
the 1984 Summer Olympics on May 8, 1984,
citing security concerns and stating that
“chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet
hysteria are being whipped up in the United
States.”
1984 Soviet Summer Olympic Boycott
• President Reagan agreed to meet all of the
demands of the Soviet Union in turn for the
Soviet Bloc's attendance at the 1984 Olympics,
marking a stark contrast in Reagan’s “hawkish”
views on Cold War foreign policy.