Stanley Milgram's classic study on obedience was spurred on by-and conducted in the wake of ____.

A) a series of catastrophic decisions by NASA scientists
B) the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
C) the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States
D) World War II and the Holocaust

Stanley Milgram

An American social psychologist best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s.

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a United States government agency responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.

Holocaust

a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately six million Jews, alongside millions of others including Romani people, Soviet civilians, Polish and Soviet prisoners of war, and people with disabilities.