Bretton Woods
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The site of the conference that in 1944 led to the establishment of the postwar foreign exchange system that remained intact until the early 1970s. The conference resulted in the formation of the IMF. The system fixed currencies in a fixed exchange rate system with 1 percent fluctuations of the currency to gold or the dollar.
Bretton Woods (Wikipedia)
Bretton Woods can refer to:
- Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, a village in the United States
- Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, a ski resort located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
- The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, also known as the "United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference"
- The Bretton Woods system, the international monetary system created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
