Many people of the united states and europe held protests related to the rosenbergs’ trial because they thought that the
a. had not been punished harshly enough
b. should have received more attention for their trial
c. had no ties to communism or the soviet union
d. had not been given a fair, impartial trial

Many people of the United States and Europe held protests related to the Rosenbergs’ trial because they thought that the Rosenbergs had not been given a fair, impartial trial. They claimed that it was unfair to sentence them to death.

EXPLANATION  

The Rosenberg trial was one of the major events in America in the early fifties related to the anti-communist movement. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced of conspiracy to hand over atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. They were executed on June 19, 1953. To this day their trials are still controversial.

During the Manhattan Project, espionage became a major issue for the United States government. Some of the people who worked on the Manhattan Project were spies who provided information about the details of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Thus, some of the scientists claim that espionage contributed to accelerating the progress of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program. Julius Rosenberg was one of the Soviet spies. Julius is a US-based electrical engineer. Julius acts as a spy with his wife Ethel. They met when they were activists of the Communist Party.  

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•What was one point of the appeal of the death penalty for the Rosenbergs?

KEYWORD: communist, Manhattan Project, fairness, the Rosenbergs  

Subject: History

Class: 10 - 12

Subchapter: Rosenberg  

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