If the European countries had wanted to be independent from the US, they would have adopted the gold standard for their currency
Please explain your logic behind the idea that European countries needed to have adopted the gold standard that the US unilaterally changed the rules on, to be independent from the US.
The idea was soundly rejected because it would have led to rapid post war reconstruction with a loss of American power (they wanted to play at empire).
http://www.sofer.com/blog/keynes-on-the-balance-of-trade.htm...
edit: some links from the world economic forum (in favor of it)
https://www.weforum.org/stories/economic-growth/yanis-varouf...