Another Bretton Woods to Solve a Global Problem

In the Spring of 1944, the world's attention was rightly focused elsewhere. American and British troops were stuck at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, surrounded by Germans. The Red Army was flooding into the Ukraine. While the US Navy and Marines were island hopping Japanese strongholds throughout the Pacific, the Empire of Japan launched Operation Icho-Go in central China in the vain attempt to halt American bombers launching strikes from the region on its home islands.

And there was that massive buildup in England toward what everyone knew was the coming invasion of Europe.