Bretton Woods System (1944)

The Bretton Woods system, set up in 1944.

In the engine's read, a new machinery of economic extraction that replaced the old gold-standard imperial model.

It made the US dollar the world's reserve currency and created the IMF and World Bank as its enforcement arms; the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe as a market dependent on American goods and debt. The US stepped into Britain's old role — same extraction, new face.

The engine frames it as the real structural output of the world wars: power over the global economy centralized around the dollar rather than genuinely reformed.

• creates
  The Technate
  new extraction architecture — dollar hegemony, IMF/World Bank enforcement, same pattern new mask
• connects
  Paperclip + Unit 731: Atrocity Absorption
  enemy talent absorbed into new extraction architecture — same scientists, new mask
• parallels
  TRUMP AMERICA AI Act (Mar 2026)
  1944 financial architecture reset parallels 2026 computational architecture reset — managed transition to new extraction model
• parallels
  Taiwan Contingency 2027-2028
  Taiwan crisis as managed mask rotation — same pattern as London-to-New York hegemony transfer via two World Wars
• survived
  BIS — Central Bank of Central Banks
  Bretton Woods voted to abolish BIS — quietly shelved by 1948. The meta-ledger was too vital to dismantle