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The Bretton Woods system was setup at end of WW2 to regulate the exchange rate of the free world economies. The exchange rate between the various countries was fixed to the USD and the USD was fixed to gold price. In the 1960s the Bretton Woods system came under pressure finally collapsing in the 1971.
What would take for the Bretton Woods to collapse earlier say 1965?