The Bretton Woods system established the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency in the post-World War II global economy. As Allied forces viewed that the war was coming to an end, representatives ...

During World War II, the U.K. and U.S. Treasuries initiated plans to overcome ... Preparations for what would become the Bretton Woods conference began in earnest in the middle of 1943. Keynes ...

Marking these anniversaries offered an opportunity to reflect on a familiar list of triumphs—not just the defeat of fascism ...

Bretton Woods Conference delegates including U.K delegate and Commission II leader Lord John Maynard Keynes (center). Years of planning and discussion preceded Bretton Woods and laid the foundation ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement helped to establish institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the lender that became the World Bank. With the end of the war in sight, the U.S. and 43 ...

The global economic cooperation that has held sway since the end of World War II is challenged by new political forces ... The postwar system created at the Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, conference in ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference and the birth of the World Bank ... would help countries recover from the devastation wrought by World War II while facilitating ...