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If you want to know, really know how Breton Woods Agreement was forged, use this link (Note the article is long but very instructive):

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/1944-bretton-woods-conference

As to the part that you are objecting, use the link available here (It appears right at the top only one paragraph to read).

https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/161/article-A001-en.xml


The only option was to anchor the international monetary system to the one currency that could: the US dollar.