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In July of 1944, representatives from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. The United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "new Bretton Woods" agreement in October 2008, they were recalling the success of the International Monetary ...

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 ...

This week works are being carried out at Bretton Woods to remove several ash trees, to help combat the spread of Ash Dieback. A spokesperson for Peterborough City Council said: “A small number ...