Birth Control and Revolution

Nineteen hundred and sixty was the year that ushered in a decade of great historical change; during this decade, man walked on the moon, watched the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and waited for nuclear war. As a decade that saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, the creation of the Berlin Wall and the United States entering the Vietnam War, it is characterized as a decade of political crisis, social upheaval and nearly continuous warfare. …

…birth control pill into the United States in the 1960’s. The Sexual Revolution and the feminist movement were influenced by numerous ideas and had their roots de! ep in history but their occurred during the 1960s because of the birth control pill. While it cannot solely be entirely credited for either revolution, the Pill certainly did lay the foundation for both and is arguably the most influential and important development of this decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**