1944 agreement which established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
An agreement in effect from 1945 to 1972, under which exchange rates of the major currencies were fixed, and moved in lockstep. After the agreement collapsed in 1972, currencies began to trade at fluctuating levels.
An agreement signed by the major trading countries following WWII, which returned the world economy to a type of gold standard.
pegged or fixed the value of many currencies against the US$, which was pegged against the price of gold (1944-1971).
At the U.N. Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944, forty-four nations established the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank).
An agreement made near the end of World War II to promote exchange rate stability and facilitate the international flow of currencies.
An agreement signed by the original United Nations members in 1944 that established the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) and the post-World War II international monetary system of fixed exchange rates.