each invoked the memory of “Bretton Woods,” the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century’s second great war ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement, signed in July 1944, marked a significant turning point in international economic relations following World War II. Convened at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton ...

The Bretton Woods conference established a highly regulated international currency system. The United States dollar was established as the international currency fixed at the rate of $35 per ounce ...