Bretton Woods

Forty-four nations in a New Hampshire hotel, deciding whose paper the world would trust.

July 1944, Mount Washington Hotel: 44 nations fixed currencies to the dollar and the dollar to gold, creating the IMF and World Bank — documented history with a documented espionage footnote: Harry Dexter White, the US architect, was identified in Venona decrypts as a Soviet source (disputed in degree, established in contact). The system died in 1971 (Nixon Shock). The node anchors the money file's institutional era and links the one-world-currency thread via Keynes' rejected bancor — the world currency actually proposed at the table.