Modern Olympics (TRIH ep 81, part 2)
1936 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History continues the hosts' modern Olympics series, tracing how the Games moved from austere post‑war London (1948) into a Cold War battleground of spectacle, state planning and propaganda.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1936
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)