... reluctant until after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan, on the other hand, embraced containment with a level of zeal and passion which had not been seen, if at all, even before Vietnam. The Kremlin was now facing one of the most relentless and ideological American governments since the postwar period (444). According to the Reagan mythology on the decline of détente, in returning to ... a policy of containment in the 1980s, the United States was simply responding to the sustained drive for strategic superiority ... by Moscow (445). Détente, as an American policy, met its de...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for married couples to enhance sexual activity while avoiding unwanted pregnancy. Even before the Sexual Revolution took root in America, one can see the reactions and desires of many people in America to promote a new ideology of sexual morality. Contrary to the popular mythology, however, the Sexual Revolution did not really begin with the birth control pill because the trend ... of the revolution can be traced back to the end of World War I. In the early 1910s, espousing artificial means of birth control remained controversial. Although contraceptive information was available in ... ...

• Word Count: 2720
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... wartime, the Second Front debate, the liabilities of the "unconditional surrender" policy, the nature of the air war waged against Germany and Japan, the development of atomic weapons, and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book is filled with enthusiastic insight and explanations. For example, Kennedy rejects the mythology, which suggests that the "roaring twenties" was a period of universal success. He suggests that it was ... much more than Jazz Age speakeasies, flappers, and a soaring stock market. It was a decade of extreme poverty for many, especially blacks, immig...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate