1936 Berlin Olympics
By: Jadeyja Daniels
Introduction
Jesse Owens
One of Hitler's goals was to be able to prove his theory that Aryans had racial superiority but Jesse Owens, an African American, defied him by winning four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 4x100 and long jump. He also broke nine Olympic records and set 3 world records.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, soon became the chancellor of Germany. While in power, he managed to quickly recover their fragile democracy and turned it to a one-party dictatorship. With his extreme policies, he initiated World War 1 and the Holocaust which preceded the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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Firsts
The Berlin Olympics had its fair share of firsts starting with it being the first Olympic Games to be televised and the first to have the Olympic Torch Relay. 3,422 km were covered by 3,422 Aryans through Greece though Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria into Germany.
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Events & Teams
The Berlin Olympics had all of the normal games but men's handball, canoeing, and basketball made an apperance along with various forms of art competitions including paintings, lyrics, sculpture, music, and architecture design. Also, Germany had the largest amount of teams than any perious games with a host of 49 teams. United States had the 2nd largest team with 312 and Germany sat first with 348.
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Time Line of Events
Before 1933 - World War I
1933 - 1945
After 1945
Works Cited
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"Facts of the 1936 Summer Olympics." LIVESTRONG.COM. LIVESTRONG.COM, 14 July 2015. Web. 01 June 2016.
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"The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 29 Jan. 2016. Web. 31 May 2016.
"The Nazi Party: The Nazi Olympics." The Nazi Olympics (August 1936). N.p., n.d. Web. 01 June 2016.