Videos​​

• ​President Gerald Ford’s address at the Helsinki Accords, August 1, 1975: http://www.history.com/topics/detente/speeches#fords-address-at-the-helsinki-conference
• President Jimmy Carter on the Iran hostage crisis, 1979: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzMd418tEc&feature=player_embedded
• The Afghanistan Situation, 1980 - an overview of the events that unfolded between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. There is footage of protests against
  the Soviet invasion, as well as a speech by President Carter on the situation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1doW0t5tY9k
• President Carter’s speech on Afghanistan, January 4, 1980: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Y4t0-_9MY&feature=player_embedded​
• ​​U.S. Athlete Opinions on Boycott - interviews from several athletes at the U.S. Olympic trials reveal opinions on the decision to boycott
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOtwbYiRfM
• President Carter’s Meet the Press interview, January 20, 1980: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/meet-the-press/41083981#41083981

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Articles

• “The President Said Nyet,” by Terence Smith, January 20, 1980. The New York Times.
  http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/01.20.html
• “The ‘pawns’ Make A Move,” by Kenny Moore, February 4, 1980. Sports Illustrated. This article gives a look at athlete perspectives of a then possible (not yet declared) Olympic boycott, including discussions of an “alternative Games.” http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1120336/2/index.htm
• “Stating ‘iron’ Realities,” by Kenny Moore, March 31, 1980. Sports Illustrated: This article by Kenny Moore reveals what occurred during President Carter’s White House meeting with U.S. Olympic hopefuls after the declaration of the boycott. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1123304/index.htm

“Olympics for the Olympian,” by William E. Simon, July 29, 1984. The New York Times. In this article, the former Secretary of the Treasury and former president of the U.S. Olympic Committee discusses the effects of government intervention on the Olympics.
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/29/opinion/olympics-for-the-olympians.html

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​SECONDARY SOURCES

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• Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, by Tom Caraccioli and Jerry Caraccioli. New York: New Chapter Press, 2008. This book recounts the stories of the athletes whose dreams were dashed by the 1980 Olympic Boycott.
• "Diplomatic Fun and Games: A Commentary on the United States Boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics," by James A. R. Nafziger in Williamette Law Review (University of Virginia Law Library, online). This article explores the negative side effects and possible illegality of President Carter's decision to boycott the 1980 Olympics.
• ​Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War, by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes. Cambridge University Press, 2010. Sarantakes offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic Boycott, including the events in Washington D.C., opposition to the boycott, and the effects on athletic contests in Moscow.
• ​For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, by Melvyn Leffler. New York: Hill & Wang, 2008.
• The Political Olympics: Moscow, Afghanistan, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Boycott by Derick L. Hulme, Jr. Prager Publishers, 1990. This work examines the 1980 Olympic Boycott in order to show the desirability and effectiveness of manipulating international sport for the purpose of politics.​
• “The Cold War and the Olympics,” by Allen Guttmann. International Journal: Sport in World Politics, Vol. 43, No. 4, Autumn, 1988. p. 554-568.
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/40202563 Guttmann's article explores the impact that the Cold War had on the international sports/ Olympic community.

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​ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Official webpage of the 1980 Summer Olympics: http://www.olympic.org/moscow-1980-summer-olympics
• U.S. Department of State: Office of the Historian: http://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/Olympic
• On Carter’s defense of the boycott to U.S. athletes: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-tells-us-athletes-of-olympic-boycott​
• Blog archives 1980 student newspaper on the boycott: http://blogs.nvcc.edu/anlibrary/2012/08/03/from-the-archives-1980-moscow-olympic-games/
• Sports History Today blog includes context of the boycott, including a Coca-Cola commercial that never made the air:
  http://www.sportshistorytoday.com/carter-announces-olympic-boycott/​
• “Bitterness Lingering Over Carter’s Boycott,” by Ronald Smothers, July 19, 1996. The New York Times on the resentment toward President Carter’s
  decision to boycott. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/19/sports/olympics-bitterness-lingering-over-carter-s-boycott.html