For John Lewis Gaddis, who wrote one of the most authoritative works on the history of the Cold War, the end of the Cold War spelled the “triumph of hope” (Gaddis, 2005). Gaddis argued that communism had failed to deliver the better life it had promised and the global rise of democracies, coupled with the bravery of ordinary people in the least expected times, had brought about the downfall of authoritarian regimes in the Communist bloc and triggered the end of the Cold War. In a similar tone, and as early as 1989, even before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama in his famous article, “ The End of History” argued that history was made as a result of the clash between individualism and collectivism, and that the weakening of communist regimes in the USSR and East Europe meant the defeat of the forces of collectivism and the victory of individualism, i.e., liberalism (Fukuyama, 1989). The correct answer is Choice B.