Sports of the Cold War

Dynamo Moscow played the first soccer game against Chelsea beginning their tour of the UK.

Soviets enter the summer Olympics for the first time.

Soviet Union hosts European Basketball Championship in Moscow. The Soviet Union team won, giving them “basketball power” at the time.

Soviet wins the World Ice Hockey Championships.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, with Jackie Robinson, win the World Series against the New York Yankees

First American Super Bowl

Brazil wins FIFA World Cup

USSR defeats Canada in the 1972 Summit Series.