!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a [money] system in which the standard [economic|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics] [unit of account|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_account] is based on a fixed quantity of [gold].


The [{$pagename}] was the basis for the international monetary system from the [1870s] to the early [1920s], and from the late [1920s] to [1932|Year 1932] as well as from [1944|Year 1944] until [1971|Year 1971] when the [United States] unilaterally terminated  [convertibility|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertibility]  of the US dollar to gold foreign central banks, effectively ending the  [Bretton Woods Conference].


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