The early part of the 20th century saw great global economic turmoil, and, led by Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” program in the United States, many nations expanded the role of government to prevent further economic downfall. Western nations followed the Keynesian approach to using their government to assist in economic issues. Other nations, in Eastern Europe and throughout Asia and Latin America, turned toward communistic approaches with their governments. Communism began to develop on a larger scale after WWII. Communist influence in the world began with the communist Soviet Union in the final years of WWII. Even though the Soviet Union worked alongside non-communist nations in WWII to defeat the Axis powers, after the war the Soviets parted ways with western nations and their predomin