What major global event led to the bretton-woods conference in 1944 that created the world bank and facilitated economic globalization?
a) world war 1
b) > the cold war
c) world war 2
d) none of the above

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.