Which situation finally caused President Roosevelt to respond to the Holocaust?
A. front-page news stories in American newspapers of the atrocities committed in Nazi concentration camps
B. liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by the Soviet army
C. petitions from American Jewish community leaders to relax immigration laws so that unlimited war refugees could come into the United States
D. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau's accusation that the State Department had thwarted efforts to rescue death camp prisoners
Answer: D
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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