This helped undermine the role of the British pound internationally and catapulted the US dollar to the fore – particularly after the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, at which it was agreed that countries would hold their reserves in dollars as well as gold.
这使得英镑的国际地位大受影响，而美元则粉墨登场——尤其是1944年建立布雷顿森林体系，各方协定可以将美元和黄金一样用作储备之后。