SOSC 3992 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Attack On Pearl Harbor, Totalitarianism, Free Market
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Lecture 10- the rosenberg trial: the correctness of both public policy and methods of dissent are at issue, both the state and the defendant"s method of dissent will be interrogated. Is the policy immoral: is it illegal, does it go beyond the scope of parliament, is it objectable, the state is under scrutiny. Conspiracy to commit espionage in the 1950"s, giving atomic secrets to the soviet union. Incorrect charge because this could only be applied to military personal through times of war. The u. s wasn"t engaged in any war at the time of the rosenberg charge. Timeline: 1917: russian revolution- communist defeat of czarist russia- becomes the soviet. Union: power relations shift to totalitarian regime- socialist, 1929: u. s communist party formed, 1929: wall st. stock markets collapse sending usa & the world into economic collapse, signals the beginning of the great depression (last 10 yrs. )