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Bretton Woods Conference
Bretton Woods Conference name commonly given to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held (July 1-22, 1944) at Bretton Woods, N.H. The conference resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund , to promote international monetary cooperation, and of the International ... Read more
World Bank
World Bank (est. 1944).At the July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, forty‐four nations, including the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, agreed to establish the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and D... Read more
Philip Caryl Jessup
Philip Caryl Jessup 1897-1986, American authority on international law, b. New York City, grad. Hamilton College, 1919, LL.B. Yale, 1924, Ph.D. Columbia, 1927. He was admitted (1925) to the bar, and from 1925 to 1961 he taught international law and diplomacy at Columbia. He served (1943) in the for... Read more
Sir Dennis Robertson
Sir Dennis Robertson 1890-1963, British economist, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge. A professor at Cambridge (1944-57), he also handled Anglo-American financial relationships during World War II and played an active part in the postwar Bretton Woods Monetary Conference. Robertson was an early asso... Read more
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters at Washington, D.C.; also called the World Bank. Plans were laid at the Bretton Woods Conference (1944) for the formation of a world bank; it was formally organized in 1945, whe... Read more
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson , 1893-1971, U.S. secretary of state (1949-52), b. Middletown, Conn., grad. Yale, Harvard Law School. He was (1919-21) private secretary to Louis Brandeis , became a successful lawyer, and served (1933) as undersecretary of the treasury until he resigned in disagreement with ... Read more
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. 1891-1967, American cabinet officer, b. New York City; son of Henry Morgenthau. He became interested in agriculture and bought a farm in Dutchess co., N.Y., where he became an intimate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1922, Morgenthau purchased the American Agriculturalist, ... Read more
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann , 1878-1929, German statesman. A founder (1902) and director (until 1918) of the Association of Saxon Industrialists, Stresemann entered the Reichstag in 1907 as a deputy of the National Liberal party and represented the interests of big business. During World War I, he supported t... Read more
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton , 1883-1946, English economist and monetary expert, studied at Eton and Cambridge. Early Career and Critique of Versailles Keynes served (1906-08) in the India Office of the civil service, where he was concerned with problems of Indian currency. ... Read more

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Bretton Woods Conference
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Bretton Woods Conference (1944).The breakdown...to an international conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944...Organization. The underlying principles of the Bretton Woods agreements followed American, not...
Bretton Woods Agreement
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History BRETTON WOODS AGREEMENT In July of 1944, representatives from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, for an international...x2013; 1945) world. The measures detailed at Bretton Woods were adopted by the United States and other...
Bretton Woods conference
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Bretton Woods conference, also known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial conference, this meeting was held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, from 1 to 22 July 1944. It was largely the inspiration of the British economist Maynard Keynes...
Bretton, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Bretton, John, a character in Villette by C. Brontë.
International Monetary Fund and World Bank
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...United States vehemently objected to the Bretton Woods agreements that created the IMF...II. Do the arguments made against the Bretton Woods institutions, both now and in the...that are the responsibility of the two Bretton Woods institutions: international monetary...
Global Economy, America and the
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...integrated free markets worldwide.The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 created a multilateral...Keynesian national planning. But the Bretton Woods agreements also included features...world currency markets terminated the Bretton Woods system in 1973. Stagflation (a...
International Economic Order
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...policymakers. In 1944 a conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, hammered out a...of the global economy. In contrast, Bretton Woods was short-lived; western European...the fixed exchange rate portion of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. At crisis junctures...
Agencies of the United Nations System
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations ...negotiation, and adjudication. The Bretton Woods Institutions The IMF and the World...Nations at a special conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. The World...fundamental differences between the UN and the Bretton Woods institutions is that voting in these...
Balance of Payments
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...early 1930s, but it was not until the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 that a new system...That restriction was applied because the Bretton Woods system valued all currencies against...1913 – 94) abandoned the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1973, which enabled...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations ...monetary unit was deferred for the time being. The Bretton Woods Conference A conference called by President...Associated Nations was held from 1 to 22 July 1944 at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The Bretton Woods Conference produced the constitutions...

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Bretton Woods Conference
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Bretton Woods Conference (July 1944) An international...four countries which met in the town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. In an attempt to...After an initial collapse in 1947, the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates survived...
International Monetary Fund
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...MONETARY FUND (IMF), created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, began operations...delegates of forty-four nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and proposed two...also Banking ; Banks, Export-Import ; Bretton Woods Conference ; Corporations ; Dumbarton...
Bank for International Settlements
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...central banks throughout the world, even though during the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 it was suggested that the BIS be liquidated...Library Services, June 2001. Meg Greene Malvasi See also Bretton Woods Conference ; International Monetary Fund ; Versailles...
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...divided Democratic Party. In office, he issued a new price and incomes policy, devalued the dollar, and thus ended the Bretton Woods system. He created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, and promoted civil rights , albeit with less rigour...
Gold Standard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...continued to expand, through the provision of social welfare and the active regulation of the economy, the Gold Standard became increasingly untenable. It was abandoned by the USA under President Roosevelt in 1933. Bretton Woods ; ERM ; euro
Standford, Patric (John)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...x2013;80; also taught at Goldsmiths’ Coll and Chetham's Sch. of Mus., Manchester. Dir. of Mus. Sch., Bretton Hall Coll. (Univ. of Leeds), Wakefield, 1980–93. Awarded City of Geneva's Ansermet Prize 1983 for his...
IMF
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History IMF (International Monetary Fund) One of the central institutions to emerge in 1945 from the Bretton Woods Conference , it was designed to stabilize the international economy through the exchange rate, and through the provision...
Keynes, John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...advocacy of government intervention to ensure full employment influenced the Beveridge Report , and was influential at the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, which led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund , and the World Bank . Most importantly...
Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...economic affairs for President F. D. Roosevelt in 1941, and in 1944 became a key figure in promoting the establishment of the Bretton Woods conference . As Under-Secretary for President Truman , 1945–7, he urged international control of atomic...
ERM
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...the British government to support the value of the currency, it was forced out of the ERM on 17 September 1992, an episode that proved a tremendous embarrassment for the British Prime Minister, John Major . Gold Standard ; Bretton Woods

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The Bretton Woods international monetary system: a lesson for today.
Magazine article from: NBER Reporter; 12/22/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...conference--"A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods International Monetary System"--at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The historic...Conference of July 1944, creating the Bretton Woods System of adjustable pegged...
IN FOCUS: The teenagers with plenty to say . . . about making Bretton better.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 2/8/2006; 700+ words ; ...Wareing spoke to three founding members of Bretton Youth Voice as they set off on the road...if the founders of a new council for Bretton youngsters are anything to go by, that...Wilcher are united in their vision of making Bretton a better place. One of their main aims...
FACILITY: Where does Bretton paddling pool go from here?
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 8/11/2006; 700+ words ; ...which was closed due to health and safety fears. Bretton paddling pool, in Pyhill, Bretton, Peterborough, would normally be filled with...pool. Now city council bosses are in talks with Bretton Parish Council to come up with an alternative...
NEW BRETTON BUILT TO HOLD YOUR INTEREST
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/13/2000; ; 700+ words ; BRETTON WOODS, N.H. - Bretton Woods is on the move. The gentle giant of Crawford Notch is still...There's a new gun in town: West Mountain. "Are we really skiing Bretton Woods?" asked Mary Delaney of Bethlehem, N.H., after her...
BRETTON WOODS SLOPES OFFER LAID-BACK SKIING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/22/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...just looking for laid-back skiing, Bretton Woods is the place. A look at the trail...after the New Hampshire county in which Bretton Woods is located.) After one what...defeated. My other humbling experience at Bretton Woods came on the Glade West, which I...
Bretton lives up to its past.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 1/14/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...CONNOR For much of its history, what Bretton Woods had going for it was . . . history...in the first half of the 19th century. Bretton Woods' centerpiece, the elegant Mount...to head for the hills in the winter. Bretton Woods developed into a destination ideally...
Aldi store and homes on Bretton Woods site?
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 11/8/2007; 700+ words ; THE defunct Bretton Woods School looks set to be replaced...earmarked for a parcel of land opposite the Bretton Centre, while the remainder of the school...development will lead to the demolition of Bretton Woods School before the end of the year...
MOUNT WASHINGTON HOTEL: A WINTER WONDERLAND MR. STICKNEY'S DARING IDEA THE NICETIES AT BRETTON WOODS INCLUDE HELPFUL HOSTS HOW TIMES CHANGE IT'S THE REAL THING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/23/2000; ; 700+ words ; BRETTON WOODS, N.H. - Remember when "turn...the 200-room Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, now graciously welcoming guests...Long a destination in its own right, Bretton Woods Mountain Resort has just doubled...
Bretton Woods Ski Area at the Omni Mount Washington Resort Officially Opens for the Season.
PR Newswire; 11/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...New Hampshire for the 2009-2010 Season BRETTON WOODS, N.H., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Bretton Woods, part of the Omni Mount Washington...for a $10 donation which will benefit the Bretton Woods Adaptive Program and Bretton Woods...
Bretton 'Parish council should be wound up'.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 2/18/2008; 700+ words ; ...100,000 a year to run. Conservative members of Bretton Parish Council - which represents about 12,000...Fletcher and Wayne Fitzgerald - who also represent Bretton South and Bretton North respectively on Peterborough City Council...