Julius Rosenberg worked as an engineer in labs for the Army Signal Corps in 1940, but was soon fired due to the United States fear of the new communist party. Rosenberg was previously a member of the party and was said to be have brought in by the spy Semyon Semenov who was known as a threat to the U.S. (Kostin) Rosenberg was first in question when Harry Gold was arrested in 1950 for being named when the U.S found out about major documents given to the Soviets during the war. Gold then named David Greenglass, brother of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg. David went on to pass blame on the Rosenberg’s for being accomplices. David
In the 1950s, tensions ran high between America and its one-time ally, and fear of the Communists was widespread. Joseph McCarthy, a little known senator from Wisconsin, exploited the fears of the masses in an attempt to gain a popularity and a good reputation. He declared that not only did loyal Americans face the Communist threat overseas, but that America itself harbored Soviet sympathizers and closet “Commies” by the hundreds. McCarthy spearheaded an effort to rid the country of Communism in a mass movement called the Red Scare. During the Scare, thousands of innocent citizens were accused of holding Communist sympathies, accusations which had little or no evidence to support them.
The Profumo affair was one of many embarrassments that would bring down the conservative ministry led Macmillan. However it was by far the most damaging and truly delivered the coup de grace to the conservative government. In 1962-63 there were a number of serious spy scandals, some such as the vassal affair and the Philby affair which seemed to implicated ministers John Vassall was a British civil servant who was blackmailed by the KGB (The Soviet Secret Service) because of his homosexuality, and obliged to spy for them for seven years from the mid-1950s while working as a comparatively junior civil servant in the Admiralty. In 1954, he was posted as Naval Attaché at the British embassy in Moscow. The year after he arrived, Vassall (who was homosexual) was encouraged by the KGB to become extremely drunk at a party, and was photographed in a compromising position with several men.
The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg were communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history, therefore also making it very controversial. The turn-out of the case was not surprising, considering the time period that it occurred. There were many factors that influenced the outcome of the Rosenberg case.
The Hollywood Ten was a group of ten men who, because they would not cooperate with the HUAC were jailed. Two spy cases shocked the nation. The first case in 1950, involved Alger Hiss, who was a State Department official. He was convicted of perjury after being accused of passing documents to the Soviets. The second case involved the Rosenbergs giving information on the atomic bomb to the Soviets.
Formed in 1938 and known as the Dies Committee for representative Martin Dies, who chaired it until 1944. HUAC investigated a variety of “activities”, including those of German American Nazis during the World War II. The committee soon focused on communism, beginning with an investigation into Communists in the Federal Theatre Project in 1938. A significant step for HUAC was its investigation of the charges of espionage brought against Alger Hiss in 1948. This investigation ultimately resulted in Hiss’s trial and conviction for perjury, and convinced many of the usefulness of congressional committee for uncovering communist
Now, Abigail wants to eliminate Elizabeth from the equation, so she accuses Elizabeth of being a witch in hopes that Elizabeth will be hanged and John Proctor single. Abigail doesn’t see Elizabeth as a human; she completely devalues her life by calling her a witch and doing what she can to have Elizabeth killed. A modern day issue that relates to The Crucible by devaluing human life is human trafficking, or modern day slavery. It is estimated that about 20.9 million people are living in slavery today, which is more people than the total amount of people brought from Africa to America during the slave trade between the 17th and 19th centuries ("New ILO Global Estimate of Forced Labour: 20.9 million victims"). These people are forced to work for little or no pay, often sold into a lifetime of rape, abuse, and intense labor, sometimes as young as five or six years old.
In 1949, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of being Russian spies and were executed for providing Russia with secrets of the construction of the Atomic bomb (The Atom Spy Case. 2012). American spies had also been found in Russia. As if America wasn’t dealing with enough fear during the 60’ s. The assassination of a President and Malcolm X, Vietnam, and the Berlin Wall were all occurrences that Americans had to deal with in the 60’s. Not to mention, the flood of anti-communist rhetoric through news and media.
On July 17, 1950, Julius Rosenberg, an electrical engineer and employee for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, was arrested for allegedly passing atomic secrets to Russia. One month later, on August 11, Julius’ wife, Ethel, was also arrested, charged with assisting her husband with his illicit activities. The Rosenbergs, former members of the American Communist Party, were implicated by Ethel’s brother-in-law, David Greenglass and a Philadelphia chemist, Harry Gold, who, after admitting to their own espionage activities, served as the primary witnesses in the trial. Despite the existence of only flimsy, circumstantial evidence (which included conflicting stories by Gold and Greenglass, a series of vague sketches that Greenglass presented as being identical to the secrets passed by Julius to the Soviets and government secrecy with its own evidence), Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death under the Espionage Act of 1917. Even after their conviction, the couple continued to assert their innocence from inside Sing-Sing Prison in New York, attempting to appeal to the Supreme Court seven times although failing to receive a hearing each
The Devil’s in the Details Cellissa Hernandez Portfolio Assignment 2.2: Read Transcripts and Newspaper Article 17751276 Rumor Has It…. In the city of Salem, many have been found guilty of witch craft. They have not all admitted to it but are known to be witches. The accused have been hanged, there is one man who refused to speak and was therefore pressed to death. There is no tan accurate count of how many have been killed but it has been said that at least thirteen witches have been executed.