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In 1944, 44 nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design a new financial system.
The dollar was tied to gold, and all other currencies tied to the dollar. For a time, it worked.
But by the 1960s, America was printing more dollars than it had gold to back. Confidence began to fade.
In 1965, French President Charles de Gaulle sent a warship to New York—loaded with dollars—to demand real gold in return.
This dramatic act exposed the cracks in Bretton Woods.
On August 15, 1971, President Nixon ended the dollar’s link to gold. The system collapsed, and a new era of money began.
Gold lost its role as world currency, but not its power.
Even today, when trust falters, the world turns back to gold.