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.”. By: Amanda . LaFayette. , Madison Chandler and . Rihana. Wilson. Historical Events in the 1920’s. This time was also called the Roaring 20’s because it was a big cultural, industrial, and political growth.. 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 . Discover what makes the Olympic Games so great!. . Introduction. The following Web Quest will take you on a tour of the Olympic Games. The tour will help you gain knowledge about the different aspects on what the games have to offer not only to our county, but the entire world. . Section 1. America Struggles . with Postwar Issues. Nativism. Came out of various worries following WWI. Prejudice against foreign-born people. Evident in immigration quotas, rise of the . Ku Klux Klan. 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. . 1.) 18th Amendment. . -- passed in 1919, made the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal. Why were people for prohibition?. •. People blame high crime rates on alcohol. •. People believe alcohol is evil. Prohibition. January 1920- 18th Amendment. Sale of alcohol was illegal . Bootlegging- Illegally producing and selling alcohol . Speakeasies. Illegal establishments that sold liquor. “Speak easy” when you are at a bar so you don’t look nervous or act suspicious . 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. . Pierre de . Frédy. , Baron de Coubertin. A French historian and educator who revived the Olympic games at the end of 19. th. century.. He believed that sports education must be a significant part of young people’s personal development.. 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. . 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 . The five rings represent the five continents of the world. . The rings are five interlocking rings, . coloured. blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white field, known as the "Olympic rings". The symbol was originally created in 1913 by Coubertin. He appears to have intended the rings to represent the five continents: .