What made Julius and Ethel Rosenberg so famous in U.S. History?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are most famous for what they did during WWII and the Cold War. During World War II, the USSR and the United States became allies in the war, but the government was very suspicious of Stalin’s intentions. During the war, the Americans did not share information or seek assistance from the Soviet Union for the Manhattan Project. However, the Russians knew of the project as a result of espionage, or spying of the US government and had made a number of attempts to infiltrate its operations at the University of California, Berkeley. A number of project members like David Greenglass and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg voluntarily gave secret information to Soviet agents, many because they were sympathetic to communism and did not feel that the US should have a monopoly on weapons such as the Atomic Bomb and other atomic weapons. After the war, the US continued to not share nuclear secrets, but the Soviet Union was able to produce its own atomic weapons by 1949. Its firs
