Why are first hand accounts important?

Which of the following was the eventual result of the allied attempts to contain soviet expanion

As the coach of the u. s. olympic cycling team, i can state without question that the swedish and french teams were using illegal steroids. how else could they have beaten us so badly in the last competition? the u. s. team trained much harder and was much more skilled than our opponents. we only lost because a few teams cheated.

Following archduke franz ferdinand's assassination, austro-hungarian leaders: a. aided the ottoman empire in its campaign to keep serbia under its control. b. executed nearly all prominent serbs living in austria-hungary c. threatened to invade serbia if serb leaders did not agree to a set of strict demands. d.. formed an alliance with great britain to protect austria-hungary from future attacks.