The Bretton Woods Conference, officially known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was a gathering of delegates from 44 nations that met from July 1 to 22, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to agree upon a series of new rules for the post-WWII international monetary system.
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the creation of a fixed exchange-rate for the united states and much of Western Europe
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The International Monetary Fund was created in 1945 following agreements made by representatives of the 44 Allied nations at the United Nations Monetary and Financial conference of 1944.The conference took place between 1st and 22nd July 1944 at the Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States. It is more commonly known as the "Bretton Woods Conference".
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed in 1947, was the first major economic agreement signed entirely after the end of WWII. The origins of GATT were laid in the Bretton Woods Agreement signed in July of 1944. The Bretton Woods Agreement also led to the establishment of the World Bank and the IMF after the war. See links below.
It approved partition among European powers and agreed that future acquisitions could be gained by "effective occupation" - in other words force. What had previously been a matter largely of exploration and (usually predatory) treaty-making would henceforth be a process of armed conquest of the interior. For Congo, the conference formalised the brutal personal rule of King Leopold II and his private intermediaries.
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Conference USA is a national athletic league. The overriding purpose of Conference USA is to provide competition between universities in sports like softball.