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>In 1945, the US imposed on France and Britain a new regime: they had to start letting go of their colonies, but in return, the US imposed peace would allow any

>In 1945, the US imposed on France and Britain a new regime: they had to start letting go of their colonies, but in return, the US imposed peace would allow any country to complete for raw materials by price rather than by power. I've never heard this before... Can you share reading materials?

ocschwar 10y ago
Having trouble googling the articles I read on this years ago. But here's a start: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/bretton-woods https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/bretton-woods In that article, the United Kingdom agreed that in return for U.S. lend-lease assistance, it would cooperate with the United States in devising measures to expand “production, employment, and the exchange and consumption of goods,” to eliminate “all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce,” to reduce barriers to trade, and generally to achieve the goals laid out in the Atlantic Charter. [...] That describes the Lend Lease Act, which was expanded in effect into Bretton Woods