The correct answer here is C.
The Cold War was waged on many fronts. They may not have been literal fronts in classic sense but fronts nonetheless. There were proxy wars but also cultural and economic wars as well. The reduction of oil prices by Saudi Arabia were significant because they hurt the struggling economy of the Soviet Union.
Even though the devastation caused by the atomic bomb was tremendous, and had killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens, the Emperor refused to back down. Surrender in the Japanese culture is shunned very harshly as it made one cowardly.
One of the most important roles of free press in a democracy is to C) keep citizens well informed. Free press is important to support the value of free speech and the free flow of ideas in a democratic society.
The Articles of Confederation were the written document that created the operations of the government of the US after it declared independence from Great Britain.
