Events that set or broke the rules of the international monetary system, including the Bretton Woods conference, the Nixon shock and the Plaza Accord. An event belongs here when its cited article describes a change in exchange rate arrangements between countries. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading International Monetary Order Milestones, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Wikipedia: Bretton Woods Conference
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The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate what would be the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. The conference was held from July 1 to 22, 1944.
Plaza Accord (Wikipedia)
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The Plaza Accord was a joint agreement signed on September 22, 1985, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, between France, West Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the French franc, the German Deutsche Mark, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling by intervening in currency markets.
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