World Currency

Without adding any new countries, or removing any (well, you could combine N & S Korea, if you wanted), create a situation where the entire world operates on one single currency by the current day.
 
Any requirements for the POD?

Else...
- Western states keep the gold standard, other countries follow suit, and somewhen someone's got the idea: "Hey, why don't we introduce a world-wide currency?" For the first few years the old currencies are kept (parallel), after that, you've got your world currency.
 
Perhaps as part of the UN. The Allies might want it to help with the Marshall Plan/decolonization, and the Communists would want it to maintain unity in COMECON.
 
The west had something close to a world currency from 1944 to 1976. The Bretton Woods agreedment fixed exchange ratios between the currencies. The former Axis countries were allowed to join after the war (The exchange rate beween the USD and the D-Mark was 1:4,66)
It was abolished for two reasons: The trend was towards less influence by the state towards the economy (Back then you had to apply for large amonts of foreign currency) and the economies of the member states had drifted so far apart that the rates were unrealistic.
So now you need a POD in which the US is even more dominant than in OTL after WW2 (when they were responsible for ONE HALF of the global GNP). A sucessfull war against the USSR might do just that. In such a world the devastated rest might just accept the USD as currency.
You also might want for a POD where gouvernment influence in the economy is strengthened.
 

Faeelin

Banned
Britain collapses in civil war after George III is shot in 1795, and the French revolutionaries take Britain.

With financial resources of Britain and the armies of Europe, Lazare becomes the founder of the fraternal Brotherhood of Mankind, which unites the world by 1950.

That'd actually be fun to write.
 
Various 3rd World and Middle Eastern countries came up with something called the Golden Dinar sometime in the 1960s and 1970s. I don't think it caught on, but it would have been interesting if it did. I can't remember whether this currency's value would have been tied to the price of gold or the price of oil, though.

A Golden Dinar could lead to an earlier Euro (and I imagine the Soviets would impose the ruble on all of their subject nations), with the US dollar being dominant in the Westenr Hemisphere due to the sheer size of the US economy. You might end up with three multinational currencies in this scenario.
 
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