Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/julius-and-ethel-rosenberg

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg born?Julius: May 12, 1918. Ethel: September 28, 1915
2. What is the executed?June 19, 1953, by electrocution at Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York

Espionage: The clandestine collection of information, typically by government agents, for strategic or political advantage.
Cold War: A period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, characterized by proxy wars and an arms race.
Venona Project: A U.S. counterintelligence program that decrypted Soviet intelligence communications, providing evidence of Soviet espionage activities.
McCarthyism: A period of intense anti-communist suspicion and persecution in the United States during the early Cold War.