2021-2022 Reading List

Social Studies
TOPIC: The Modern Olympic Movement and the Politics of Sport
PRIMARY READING SELECTION
SOCIAL Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World by David Maraniss
STUDIES
(paperback edition subtitle: The Summer Olympics that Stirred the World) Simon & Schuster; (2008)
CONTEST
ISBN: 978-1-416-534082 w
Available from Texas Educational Paperbacks, Inc w 800-443-2078 www.tepbooks.com
The Social
Studies List price: $28.99, TEP UIL price: $18.84 plus shipping
Contest Also available from most online book sellers
consists of 45
objective
questions
and an essay. SUPPLEMENTAL READING MATERIAL
Students are
expected to
master Articles
primary
● Restoring the Olympic Games Founding Speech by Pierre
reading ● Examining "The Rhodesian Affair:" The IOC and
selections, as de Coubertin, 1892 (and annotations)
Africn Politics in the 1970s by Maureen Smith, 2008
well as https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACU
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10
specific SE/471847/le-retablissement-des-jeux-olympiques-di
/id/13613/rec/7
documents, scours-fondateur-restoring-the-olympic-games-foun
● Avery Brundage and his Vision of the Olympic Games
and to be ding-speech
during the “Unsettling” Years 1938-1952, John Lucas,
familiar with ● ‘Games must go on,' says Brundage by Jack Ellis, Stars
2008
general- and Stripes, 1972
http://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/182.pdf
knowledge https://www.stripes.com/news/games-must-go-on-sa
● The Post-Olympic Valley Effect by Chag-jie Zhao, 2010
social studies ys-brundage-1.36208
concepts and http://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/202.pdf
● The Olympics that almost wasn't by Al Stump, 1983
terms. Each ● The Ending of Detente* A Case Study of the 1980
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll1/
year, the Moscow Olympics by Thomas Smith, 2015
id/31644/rec/5
contest http://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/279.pdf
● A Policy Analysis of Gender Inequality with the Olympic
focuses on a ● "The Tokyo Olympic Games will and must go on" by
Movement, by Laura F. Chase, 1992
different Volker Kluge, 2015
topic area https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10
http://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/282.pdf
and a /id/13380/rec/10
● Massacre of the Israeli Athletes on German Soil by Ioram
reading list ● Storm Watch: Richard Pound, TOP Sponsors, and the
Melcer, 2017
that is Salt Lake City Bid Scandal, Stephen R. Wenn and
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/munich-olympics/
provided by Scott G. Martyn, 2005
● The McLaren Report on Doping by David
UIL. https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10
Wallechinsky, 2017
/id/1977/rec/1
https://isoh.org/cause-view/the-mclaren-report-on-d
● A Historical Timeline of Doping in the Olympics (Part I
oping/
1896-1968) by Michael Kremenik et al, Kawasaki
Journal of Medical Welfare, 2006
http://www.kawasaki-m.ac.jp/soc/mw/journal/en/20 Films
06-e12-1/01_kremenik.pdf
● Terrorism and the Olympics: 'The Games Have Gone
● Chariots of Fire, 1981
On' by Millicent Kennelly and Kristine Toohey,
Sporting Traditions 2007
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10
/id/5696/rec/5
 Olympic Games
● 1896 ● Summer 1976
● 1904 ● Winter 2002
● Summer 1936 ● Summer 2008
● Summer 1956 ● Winter 2014
● Summer 1968 ● Summer 2016

LINKS

Resources
https://www.britannica.com
https://www.infoplease.com
https://www.encyclopedia.com/
https://thescriptsavant.com/pdf/ChariotsOfFire.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/sports/Olympic-Games
https://www.britannica.com/list/8-olympic-cheating-scandals
https://www.britannica.com/list/7-significant-political-events-at-the-olympic-games
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/9-olympic-moments-that-changed-history/
https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-olympics-facts-and-figures
https://isoh.org/cause-view/the-evolution-of-the-early-olympics/
https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/Factsheets-Reference-Documents/Games/O
G/Factsheet-The-Games-of-the-Olympiad.pdf#_ga=2.197682543.1387851327.1545035637-2118090758.1543323217

Ancillary
https://olympics.com/en/
https://olympics.com/ioc/documents/olympic-games
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-olympics-berlin-1936
https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/General/EN-Olympic-Charter.pdf
https://stillmedab.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/Documents/Document-Set-Teachers-The-
Main-Olympic-Topics/Olympism-and-the-Olympic-Movement.pdf#_ga=2.104896387.1059500784.1615142631-1322774459.1
615142631
https://stillmedab.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/Documents/Document-Set-Teachers-The-
Main-Olympic-Topics/The-Olympic-Flame-and-Torch-Relay.pdf#_ga=2.104896387.1059500784.1615142631-1322774459.1615
142631
https://epdf.pub/the-olympic-games-explained-a-student-guide-to-the-evolution-of-the-modern-olymp.html
https://la84.org/knowledge/
https://libguides.bc.edu/globalhistory/olympics
https://broadcasting.blog-tom.com/en/
https://isoh.org/

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KEY TERMS - GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Individuals
Ali, Muhammad Johnson, Rafer
Bach, Thomas Kamaev, Nikita
Basilio, Norma Enriqueta Kamekura, Yusaku
Beamon, Bob Kano Jigoro
Bergman, Gretel Killanin, Lord
Berlioux, Monique Klobukowska, Ewa
Blankers-Koen, Fanny Lemieux, Lawrence
Brookes, Dr. William Penny Lewald, Theodore
Brown, Elwood Stanley Lewis, Carl
Brundage, Avery Louganis, Greg
Brutus, Dennis Louis, Spyridon
Caslavska, Vera McLaren, Richard
Catlin, Don Milliat, Alice
Chand, Dutee Mutko, Vitaly
Coachman, Alice Nassar, Larry
Comaneci, Nadia Nurmi, Paavo
Dassler, Horst O'Connor, Peter
de Baillet-Latour, Henri Owens, Jesse
de Coubertin, Baron Pierre Poage, George
Didrickson, Babe Portugalov, Sergei
Donike, Manfred Pound, Richard
Drapeau, Jean Rodchenkov, Gigory
Edstrom, Sigfrid Rogge, Jacques
El Moutawakel, Nawal Samaranch, Juan Antonio
Fosbury, Dick Soutsos, Panagiotis
Freeman, Cathy Spitz, Mark
Furstner, Captain Wolfgang Thanou, Ekaterini
Ganga, Jean-Claude Thrope, Jim
Glickman, Marty Ueberroth, Peter
Guttman, Ludwig Walasiewicz, Stella
Harding, Tonya Weissmuller, Johnny
Holm, Eleanor Wing, John Ian
Jenner, Caitlyn Zappas, Evangelos
Johnson, Ben Zatopek, Emil
Johnson, Michael

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Related Terms
16 Days of Glory (film) dual-citizenship
1916 Summer Olympics Eastern Bloc
1928 Women's 800m excavation of Olympia
1952 POW Olympics Exposition Universelle in Paris
1968 Black Power protest Franco-British Imperial Exhibition in London
1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Free Tibet Movement
1968 Olympic boycott Friendship Games
1972 Olympics Men's Basketball Finals Front de Liberation du Quebec
1976 Denver Winter Games Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO)
1976 New Zealand Rugby Team Tour Genocide Olympics
1976 Soweto Uprising Gleneagles Agreement
1980 Moscow games boycott Hungarian Revolution of 1956
1984 LA games boycott infrastructure
1992 Unified Team Intercalated Games
2011 Mount Elbrus terrorist attack International Fair Play Committee
2015 FIFA Corruption case International Olympic Committee (IOC)
African Boycott of Montreal Games International Paralympic Games
Amateur Athletic Union Boycott International Stoke Mandeville Games Committee
amateurism (ISMGC)
Anthropology Days International Workers Olympiads
Association of National Olympic Committees IOC 2000 Reform Commission
Atlanta Project Homeward Bound IOC Agenda 2020
austerity olympics judo
BALCO scandal June Democratic Uprising
Ban the Soviets Coalition “Katarina Rule” (figure skating)
“The Big Owe” Korean Air Flight 007
The Birds Nest Lausanne, Switzerland
Black September Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
blood doping Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition in St Louis
Blood in the Water match Manifesto of 2,000 words
Boston 2024 bid rejection match fixing
Bread Not Circuses Coalition Matthews and Collett USOC ban
Catalan Olympic Committee the mechanics clause
Centennial Olympic Park bombing Miracle on Ice
Circassian Genocide modern pentathlon
Commonwealth of Independent States Montreal Tower Project
Commonwealth Games Muse's Pentathlon
Conflict in Darfur Nichibo Textile Company Volleyball
Corridart non-aligned movement
cultural olympiad “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land”
curling Nordic Games
Deaflympics Nuremberg Laws
decolonization Ode to Sport by Georges Hohrod and M. Eschbach
dianabol Olympia, Greece
diaspora Olympia (film)
Dick, Kerr Ladies olympiad
doping Olympiastadion
Dream Team Olympic arts competitions

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Olympic Congresses Visions of Eight (film)
Olympic flame Waldi
Olympic motto The Water Cube
Olympic Movement's Agenda 21 Wenlock Olympian Games
Olympic oath Whatizit
Olympic Project for Human Rights OPHR white elephant projects
Olympic rings Women's World Games
Olympic torch relay Zappas Olympics
Olympic truce
Olympic village
opening ceremony
Panathenaic Stadium
parade of nations
Peace Angel of Helsinki
PEDs
People's Olympiad 1936
photo finish
ping pong diplomacy
Pound Commission on Doping
Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter
Putin's Ring of Steel
Qatar World Cup Bid Controversy
Red Sports International (RSI)
Refugee Olympic Team
Republican Olympiad
Rhodesia
Robert Dover's Cotswold Games
Rugby School
Rules 40, 41 and 50 of the Olympic Charter
Russian Surcharge
Salt Lake Olympics figure skating judging scandal
Seperation of Germany
Snurfer
Socialists Workers Sports International (SWSI)
Sorbonne
South African apartheid
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Spartakiad
Speed City Track Program
state-sponsored athletics
Suez Crisis
Sunshine Olympics
taekwondo
Techwood Homes
Terra Lliure
The Olympic Partner Programme
Tlatelolco Massacre
Two Chinas Problem
U2 Spy Plane incident
UN Security Council Resolution 253

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