James B. Donovan's Trial Of Rudolf Abel

Captain Henry Wirz, was a Swiss citizen and Confederate officer during the American Civil War. After a European tour with the Confederate President, he returned to Georgia in 1864 and was appointed commandant the new military prison at Camp Sumter, which became formally known as Andersonville. Captain Wirz was obscenely harsh in with the prisoners of war and it had continued until prison was closed April 10, 1865. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested for the bloodhounds that killed over fifty escaped prisoners, and of killing thirteen men by his own hand. (Levitt)

Clarence Gideon was accused of breaking and entering the bay harbor poolroom. he went to court and was found guilty. he went to prison for two years and he wrote to the supreme court during that time, it was taken in committee and Clarence 's letter helped overturn Brady and now everyone gets a court appointed lawyer if need. his letter was read and he got a second trial because his second was found to be unfair. he won his second trial and got out of jail.

In the end, the judge sentenced Leopold and Loeb to life in prison rather than sending them to be executed. During the Leopold-Loeb trial, when Darrow was believed to have accepted "a million-dollar fee", many ordinary Americans were angered at his apparent betrayal, thinking that he had "sold-out." He issued a public statement stating that there would be no large legal fees and that his fees would be determined by a committee composed of officers from the Chicago Bar Association. Darrow's condemnation of the death penalty during his legendary 12-hour closing argument catalyzed a major reversal in American attitudes toward capital punishment. In the decades that followed, the number of U.S. executions, which had been rising steadily since the early 1800s, began a rapid

Clarence Earl Gideon was falsely accused of burglarizing a cigarette machine and jukebox inside a poolroom. When Gideon was sent to court to receive his sentence, he had no lawyer, therefore he had to defend himself. Despite his valiant efforts, Gideon was sent to 5 years in prison. While there, Gideon filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus hoping to challenge his conviction. His ability to file for a petition is a positive right, so even though he was not given a lawyer, despite his need and right to one, some of his positive rights—filing a petition—were still upheld.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower had been sending U2 spy planes over the USSR since 1956, but in 1960 one of his planes got shot down while flying over the Soviet Union. His planes were said to have had state-of-the-art photography that could take pictures of Russian newspaper headlines while flying overhead. When one plane disappeared Dwight told people that a weather plane had flown off course and crashed in the USSR. Khrushchev, the Soviet Union leader, then displayed a mostly-intact wreckage of the plane and the alive pilot for people to see. Eisenhower had to publicly admit that the U.S was indeed cheating by trying to conduct espionage over the USSR.

Angalina Taylor, 4/9/23, HIS-152-O02 The Leonard Peltier Trial and the aftermath of the initial trial lasted from February 1976 till April 2005. Leonard Peltier should not have been convicted with extreme punishments for his alleged crimes due to biases from the court and law enforcement and inconsistent and incorrect information- Interviews with investigators and witnesses, government memos, and reports accounting for the event. There will also be trial excerpts, including testimonies and affidavits from the people involved.

The Red Scare Analysis During the rise of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had been brought into an alliance due to both of their desires to defeat Nazi, Germany. Although the Soviet Union’s aggressive, antidemocratic policy towards Europe created tensions even before World War II had ended. That being said, they tolerated each other as much as they could but weren’t exactly friends. The United States government was initially hostile to the Soviet leaders for their decision to take Russia out of World War I and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. The main conflict between them was their inability to agree about communism.

On August 6, 1945, the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan, sparking the start of what is now known as the Cold War. Two large military powers, the Soviet communists and the United States of America, pitted their wits and defense against each other, using any means necessary to find cracks in the others’ defenses. Three days later, the second atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, which shook the world with its deafening death toll. The world immediately took up arms in the following years, sparking some of the most controversial years in history. Suspicion turned brothers against sisters, neighbors against neighbors, and caused many lives to be ruined.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg The Rosenberg trial that ended in double execution on the electric chair in 1953 is one of the most controversial trials of all time. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were husband and wife living in New York City working for the U.S. Signal Corporation. During this time they were both accused and later found guilty of illegally providing information about the U.S atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union. Ethel never had actual evidence gathered against her but only called in for questioning about her husband’s involvement.

The United States of America in the 1920s was a period of debate, of shifting values and changing social structures, and was, above anything else, a battleground of clashing ideologies that ultimately boiled down and exploded within the Scopes Trial of 1925. The Scopes Trial was not in any way, shape, or form primarily a conflict of simply one issue alone. Instead, the Scopes Trial was the height of the tensions that emerged within America during the infamous Roaring 20s, and it, unfortunately, pushed smaller, less-debated topics to the sidelines to make way for the main conflict. Issues which revolved around racial and gender tensions existed and were debated at length within society, but were completely ignored during the proceedings of the

Donovan, had been selected to negotiate a trade between two prisoners of war. Before the negotiation planning, the CIA had captured Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy, on American soil. Shortly after, the Americans had sent out Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot, to record data in the Soviet airspace territory, or known as spying. Eventually it led to Powers being shot down and captured. The American government wanted to execute Abel at the time, but Donovan had a brilliant plan in mind, he defended Abel with full trust as his attorney.

foreign and domestic policies because it scared Americans and caused tension within the country and worldwide, leading to a lack of trust within the country. The second Red Scare, propaganda, Russian growth in power, nuclear tension, and the Hollywood Ten were all parts of the war that damaged American policies. Civilians lost trust between one another and within the government. Communism intimidated many people, and the Cold War made it appear as though it would soon take over the world. However, Truman and Eisenhower made it evident that the United States was fighting for innocent civilians worldwide, but they could not promise a steady government or country while the tension exists with Russia, but the nation is doing what they must(Document C).

When comparing the Cold War and the War on Terror, special attention must be paid to the context surrounding these wars, the strategy used, the rationale for entering the war, the costs of the war, and the overall outcome. Each of these areas are vastly explained or rationalized differently in the two “wars.” To fully understand why the United States entered the Cold War, we must first look at the events and circumstances surrounding the Soviet Union and the United States during this time in history. Two examples of these circumstances are, the major shift in distribution power to the United States and the Soviet Union which came after the “defeat of Germany and Japan and the decline of the British and French Empires.” (NSC-68).

If anything, it kept tensions high between the US and the Soviet Union and it questioned who would make the first

The objective behind, what you call a successful mission, was to intercept America’s U-2 spy aircraft, basically messing up their mission. An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month. The U-2 Incident is very significant, not just to the cold war, but to the United States of America because Nikita Khruschev wanted to wreck relations between the two countries, Eisenhower was president at the time, and Khruschev announced that he would no longer deal with the United States of America until Eisenhower was out of