The blockade spread fear through the American populace that the Soviets would be willing to use any tactic they found necessary for victory even if that meant forcing innocent people to starve. Another event that increased the Red Scare was the Rosenberg Trials. After World War II, on 5th september 1945, the U.S. gained knowledge of Soviet spies that were in america, one of these spies Julius Rosenberg was arrested but had refused to give the names of any other Soviet spies that he had known of. Rosenberg was put on trial, and found guilty of espionage by the jury, and sentenced to death (Jigsaw). The knowledge that there were Soviet spies in America increased the fear that information about the U.S. would be spread to the Soviets giving away important information of U.S. strategy and plans, leading people to believe and fear that the soviets could use American technology against them, making for devastating
The blockade spread fear through the American populace that the Soviets would be willing to use any tactic they found necessary for victory even if that meant forcing innocent people to starve. Another event that increased the Red Scare was the Rosenberg Trials. After World War II, on 5th september 1945, the U.S. gained knowledge of Soviet spies that were in america, one of these spies Julius Rosenberg was arrested but had refused to give the names of any other Soviet spies that he had known of. Rosenberg was put on trial, and found guilty of espionage by the jury, and sentenced to death (Jigsaw). The knowledge that there were Soviet spies in America increased the fear that information about the U.S. would be spread to the Soviets giving away important information of U.S. strategy and plans, leading people to believe and fear that the soviets could use American technology against them, making for devastating