Modern Era · North America · Politics
1944
Bretton Woods Conference begins
July 1, 1944
Delegates from forty-four Allied nations met at a New Hampshire resort to design the postwar global financial system. They created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and a gold-pegged dollar standard. Keynes sparred with the American Harry Dexter White. Capitalism had its postwar blueprint, and it would last for almost thirty years.
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Also in 1944 (5 other events on record)
- D-Day: Normandy landings · Europe · War
- Valkyrie plot fails to kill Hitler · Europe · War
- Warsaw Uprising · Europe · War
- Paris liberated · Europe · War
- Battle of Leyte Gulf · Southeast Asia · War
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.