cold war By jcaloca Period: 1944 to 1990 cold war 1945 atomic bomb , japan 1945 United Nations formed in SF 1945 Korea libertated from Japan 1946 iron curtain, through eastern europe 1946 bell trade act, philipines 1949 NATO formed in washington dc 1949 Chinese Civil war ended 1950 N Korea invades South k 1950 korean war begins 1951 the European Coal and Steel Community is formed paris 1952 treaty of taipei 1953 Stalin dies, 1954 Peace Conference in geneva 1954 vietnam splits 1955 warsaw pact in poland 1956 Hungarian Revolution 1957 the space race begins US 1957 sputnik launched USSR 1958 first communication satellite US 1958 nasa founded US 1959 A communist revolution, Cuba 1959 first icbm 1959 the Tibetan uprising occurs. 1960 OPEC formed middle east 1960 U2 crisis, aramil 1961 Bay of Pigs, Cuba 1961 Kennedy meets with Khrushchev in Vienna. 1961 the Nicaraguan Revolution begins. 1962 cuban missile crisis, cuba 1963 Deim was assasinated vietnam 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban treaty moscow 1964 Gulf of token incident 1966 France withdraws from NATO command structure. 1967 the Cambodian Civil War begins 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, moscow 1969 first man on the moon us 1970 Invasion of cambodia 1970 the Soviet Union and West Germany sign the Treaty of Moscow. 1972 Operation Linebacker II, viet 1974 the Trade Act of 1974 US 1975 vietnam overan south 1976 Soviet and Cuban forces install a communist government in Angola 1978 Ayatollahs led a revolution, Iran 1979 Overthrowing of the regime, Nicaragua 1979 USSR invaded Afghanistan 1981 soviet union falls 1983 Martial law in Poland is lifted 1985 military rule ends in Brazil. 1987 Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" 1989 fall of the berlin wall