PPT-1920-1929 – The Olympic Games of the 1920s

29 nations participated in the 1920 Olympiad held in Antwerp Belgium with less than a year to really prepare There had been a hiatus from the 4 year cycle because of World War I the Games had last been held in 1912 . ICGSE. History. Depth Study: The USA, 1919-41. How far did the US economy. boom in the . 1920s. ?. A New Era. Henry Ford: “We are entering a new era. Our new thinking and new doing are bringing us a new world, and a new heaven, and a new earth, for which prophets have been looking from time immemorial.”. The vision of Baron Pierre de Coubertin in establishing the modern Olympic Games on 1896. The principles, aims and philosophy of the Olympic Games. . The British Olympic association and the International Olympic Committee – two bodies that are central to Olympic organisation and administration. Research by SRPA Students. A Bit of History…. The word mascot is derived from the Provencal and appeared in French dictionaries at the end of the 19th century. “It caught on following the triumphant performance of Mrs . sports competition. . The Olympic Games are an international sports competition which is held every four years in a different city. Thousands of athletes from all over the world compete against each other in individual and team sports. Over 1 billion people watch the games on TV.. HOST CITY’S . GROUP . MARKET HOTEL DEMAND: THE CASE OF VANCOUVER CANADA . (Winter 2010). . Brian Miller, . EdD. Yingshun. Li, MS. Abstract. Study investigated the impact of the Winter Olympic Games on the host city’s group market compared the total lodging market as measured by the change in six hotel industry metrics: supply, demand, occupancy rate, average daily rate, revenue, and revenue per available room over a 6 year period. Vancouver hosted Winter Olympic Games in 2010. . Movies. An era of black-and-white silent films. Some well known titles are:. Metropolis (1927). Ben-. Hur. (1925 film). Nosferatu. : A Symphony of Horror (1922. ). (the original vampire movie). Music. By 1920, just over 20 percent of Americans were high school graduates and only 8 percent were college graduates. . C. ollege . football was enormously popular with the nation's populace. . People . attended games and huddled by their radios to follow the action on Saturday afternoons. . There were significant differences between the quality of play and the fan base for pro and college basketball. . Many of the professionals never went to college and some did not even complete high school. . The “manly art of boxing,” seemingly ingrained in many cultures and introduced in the original Olympics in about 688 . bce. , adopted the Marquis of Queensbury rules in the late 1800s and made the sport less violent. . 16 franchises . had been established for at least a decade, the World Series had become institutionalized since its onset in . 1900. . Minor-league . baseball teams at levels from Class AAA to Class D were located in almost every town of more than 10,000 . It . was known as the . sport. . of. . kings. . . In the US, . the game became popular in the 1800s, first as court tennis and later as lawn tennis, . although still a . game for the rich. . The . Olympics included tennis in the first modern Olympiad in 1896 and it was an Olympic sport through 1924, when . Seeing Red. vAmerica turned in after the war again- disillusion. vFear of Communist Russia. vSmall party in US. vBelieved takeover in US. v. Palmer Raids- 1919-1920- Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer. . Folles. French Culture in the 1920’s. Artistic Movements. Surrealism. Art-Deco. Avant-Garde. Dada. Literature. French Poets. André Breton, . Surrealism Manifesto. Paul . Éluard. . Robert . Desnos. 776 (1,000) B.C.E. – 394 A. The Greeks (A little background). The Minoan civilization controlled the Aegean sea and the lands it touched for 1,600 years.. About 1,400 B.C.E. the Mycenaean people became the dominant culture in that same region. .