COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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The Rosenbergs
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John Kennedy
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Oliver Hill
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Detailed explanation-1: -In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage under the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917. Members of the communist party, the Rosenbergs were convicted of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in 1945.
Detailed explanation-2: -On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair.
Detailed explanation-3: -On March 29, 1951, following a high-profile trial, the Rosenbergs were convicted of treason, in the form of passing atomic secrets to Russia.
Detailed explanation-4: -In January 1950, Fuchs confessed that he had passed information to the Soviets over a seven-year period beginning in 1942. A British court sentenced him to fourteen years’ imprisonment and he was subsequently stripped of his British citizenship.