The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. On July 1, 1944, as the battles of the Second World War raged in Europe and the Pacific, delegates from forty-four nations met at the ...

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 ...

This site from the Joint IMF and World Bank Library comprises nine brief segments with information about the Bretton Woods meeting of 1944. Institutions evolve in market economies to help individuals ...