The true spirit of the age, when 1970 a post-war generation of women take up the fight for equality/ They recall the battle for equal pay and opportunities and the sexual freedom imparted by the new birth control pill, in 1975 the success of Castro in Cuba inspires a new form of insurgence-guerrilla warfare. In Vietnam and Afghanistan and around the world, small, dedicated groups sap the enemy's strength while remaining too elusive to be confronted. In 1979 the secular liberalism of many Middle Eastern, African and Asian countries is rejected as the Ayatollah Khomeini's Iranian revolution inspires Muslims to seek fundamentalist Islamic government.