Účast Československa na vzniku Mezinárodního měnového fondu a Světové banky 1941 - 1945

This thesis deals with participation of Czechoslovak representation in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank between 1941 and 1945. Establishment of the Bretton Woods system of monetary management was a logical resolution of the preceding evolution of the international monetary relationship and therefore a reaction on the lesson from the global economic and political crisis, culminating in the catastrophe of the World War II. Both of the monetary institutions resulting from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 were supposed to support the development of international trade and economic growth through international monetary cooperation, and also to create the conditions necessary for economic prosperity of the member states and world peace after the World War II. Despite the complicated political and economic situation of Czechoslovakia in the early forties, its delegation had a relatively significant influence to the establishment of the Bretton Woods institutions. Czechoslovak delegates were actively participating not only in the constitutive conference in Bretton Woods, but also the preceding international monetary dealings. There they were defending not only the interests of Czechoslovakia, but also of other small European states that were occupied or devastated by war, and they were pursuing before all to become resources for restoration of economies and democratic regimes of these states.