Bretton Woods Conference

International conference held after WW2 to come to an agreement on the post-war economic order (part of List of Post-War Conferences)

Conference where America blocks John Maynard Keynes' proposal to establish a new non-USD gold/silver-backed currency as the world reserve currency (BANCOR)

Featured Eleanor Dulles as an attendee; Eleanor is a PhD economist and the sister of John Foster Dulles. She was supposedly an opponent of Keynes' proposal

Featured Harry Dexter White as an attendee as well; he was the main opponent of Keynes' proposal, and was drafting his proposal around the same time as Keynes.