Sentence:  The trial will be held , probably the first week of March , in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs , the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby <WSD>changed</WSD> world history during the 1950 s , was sentenced to 14 years in prison . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  cause to change; make different; cause a transformation