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Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
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Cold War
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American spies for the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sing Sing
Maximum-security prison in Ossining, New York
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