Biography Of Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the only United States civilians to get executed for committing espionage (Ethel Rosenberg). Julius Rosenberg took down many people with him. He also helped a lot of groups working as a spy. Many of the people he took down along with him were people close to him such as his wife, Ethel Rosenberg, her family, and his friends while growing up. The groups that were helping him during his time of committing espionage were the The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) and the people spying on The Manhattan Project. Shortly after all this happened they were arrested, put on trial, and then executed. This time in history is very important because it was the time in history when they came out with the first big weapon. This came to be an impact on history because it impacted many people’s lives.
Ethel Rosenberg was born on September twenty eighth, 1915 in New York (Ethel Rosenberg). She was born from a Jewish family (United States History). After she graduated high school only being fifteen years old she went on to work for a New York packing and shipping company (Ethel Rosenberg). Ethel only worked there because she didn't become what she really wanted to be. A singer or an actress. As soon as she went on with her job she joined the workers union and became a supporter of the Communist party (United States History).
Julius Rosenberg was born in May of 1918 in New York from a Jewish family (United States History). He went to the same high school as Ethel which was Seward Park High School, but he graduated at the age of sixteen. When he went to college he joined clubs like Steinmetz Club, and The Young Communist League. He met his future helpers ...

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.... Then about fifty years later David Greenglass decided to come out and say that he lied. He lied so that he could protect his wife and children from prosecution or even persecution because of the mistakes he made in the past (United States History).
With all that said, Julius Rosenberg’s plan of trying to secretly carry information from the United States to the Soviet Union was a fail. Not only did he get in trouble for what he had done brought other people down with him as well such as his wife. No one ever knew exactly why anything happened to her because there was no evidence. Between The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) and The Manhattan Project you would think that some of his plan would have worked, but it did not. Instead him, his family, and his friends all died. That is the story behind all that happened to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

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