Compiling these playlists was an educational experience, to say the least! I had no idea there were so many Cold War-themed songs out there (here is a categorical list) - and covering such a range of genres.

1. Intro CONELRAD Radio Alert 'Real Thing' (WBEN AM, Buffalo, NY)
2. Slim Gaillard Quartette: Atomic Cocktail (background)
3. Fay Simmons: You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb (background)
4. The Kavaliers: Get That Communist, Joe (background)
5. The Buchanan Brothers: Atomic Power (background)
6. Groucho Marx: Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances
7. Amos Milburn: Atomic Baby (background)
8. Doris Day: Tic, Tic, Tic (background)
9. The Five Stars: Atom Bomb Baby (background)
10. Carson Robison: I'm No Communist (background)
11. Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have (Keep Working)
12. The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda: Atomic Nightmare (background)
13. Skip Stanley: Satellite Baby (background)
14. Wanda Jackson: Fujiyama Mama (background)
15. Bill Haley and His Comets: Thirteen Women (And Only One Man) (background)
16. Bob Hope: Civil Defense Spot: Pattern of Survival
17. Hank Williams: No, No Joe (background)
18. Hawkshaw Hawkins: When They Found The Atomic Power (background)
19. Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup: I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole (background)
20. Josephine Premice: Leave De Atom Alone
21. Dennis James (Announcer); Leo Hoegh (Civil Defense Director)
22. Billy Chambers: Fallout Shelter (background)
23. Sheldon Allman: Radioactive Mama (background)
24. Teresa Brewer: Satellite (background)
25. Walker Edmiston as Barky: I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (In A Pink Cadillac) (background)
26. Art Linkletter: Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use the Phone!
27. Al Rex: Hydrogen Bomb (background)
28. Jackie Doll and his Pickled Peppers: When They Drop The Atomic Bomb (background)
29. Sir Lancelot: Atomic Energy (background)
30. Homer Harris (with Muddy Waters): Atomic Bomb Blues (background)
31. Eddie Hill: I Changed My Mind
32. Lowell Blanchard and the Valley Trio: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (background)
33. Floyd Tillman: This Cold War With You (background)
34. Civil Defense Spot: Take The Step (Grandma's Pantry)

1. Civil Defense Spot: CONELRAD 'Test Announcement'
2. Dick 'Two Ton' Baker: Bert The Turtle (The Duck And Cover Song) (background)
3. Sheldon Allman: Crawl Out Through The Fallout (background)
4. Karl and Harty: When The Atom Bomb Fell
5. Jim Eanes: They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain
6. Sammy Salvo: A Mushroom Cloud (background)
7. Tony Bennett: Civil Defense Spot: Nuclear Attack
8. H-Bomb Ferguson: Rock H-Bomb Rock (background)
9. Roosevelt Sykes: Sputnik Baby (background)
10. Sonny Russell: Fifty Megatons (background)
11. Linda Hayes with the Red Callender Sextette: Atomic Baby (background)
12. Civil Defense Spot: Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (Short film, 8:58 min) 
13. Ray Anderson: Stalin Kicked The Bucket (background)
14. Warren Smith: Uranium Rock (background)
15. The Louvin Brothers: Great Atomic Power (background)
16. Fred MacMurray: Civil Defense Spot: Family Fallout Shelter Booklet
17. Tommy James: The Commies Are Coming
18. Tom Lehrer: We'll All Go Together When We Go (background)
19. The Cuff Links: Guided Missiles (background)
20. Ray Anderson and the Homefolks: Sputniks And Mutniks (background)
21. Civil Defense Spot: CONELRAD, Sounds Pretty Complicated
22. The Goldwaters: Down In Havana
23. Marty Robbins: Ain't I Right (background)
24. The Commodores: Uranium (background)
25. Civil Defense Spot: Take the Step (Four Wheels To Survival)
26. Jack Holden and Frances Kay: The Fiery Bear (background)
27. The Crown City Four: Watch World War Three (On Pay TV) (background)
28. Al Rogers and his Rocky Mountain Boys: The Hydrogen Bomb (background)
29. Elton Britt: The Red We Want Is The Red We Got
30. Pat Boone: Civil Defense: Warning Signals
31. Mike Fern, Mike (aka Mike Fernandez): A Bomb Bop (background)
32. Carl Mann: Satellite No. 2 (background)
33. Mike and Bernie Winters: Fallout Shelter (background)
34. Hank King with Bud Williams and his Smiling Buddies: Your Atom Bomb Heart (background)
35. Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Not Contagious) (Short film, 25 min) 

1. Civil Defense Spot: How much time do we have? (Disaster on a Big Scale)
2. Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts: Love That Bomb (background)
3. Glenn Barber: Atom Bomb (background)
4. Elton Britt: Uranium Fever (background)
5. Spencer and Spencer: Russian Bandstand (background)
6. Boris Karloff: Civil Defense Spot: Protect Your Home
7. Swan's Silvertone Singers: Jesus Is God's Atomic Bomb
8. The Pilgrim Travelers: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
9. Sam Hinton: Old Man Atom
10. The Sons Of The Pioneers: Old Man Atom
11. Roy Acuff: Advice To Joe (background)
12. Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency
13. Dore Alpert: Fallout Shelter (background)
14. Fred Kirby: When That Hell Bomb Falls (background)
15. Hal Block with the Tony Borrello Orchestra: The Senator McCarthy Blues
16. Ann-Margret: Thirteen Men (background)
17. Mitzi Gaynor: Civil Defense Spot: 640-1240
18. The Buchanan Brothers: There's A Power Greater Than Atomic (background)
19. Louisiana Red: Red's Dream (background)
20. Little Caesar and the Red Callender Sextette: Atomic Love
21. Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith and his Crackerjacks: Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High Off The Hog (background)
22. Civil Defense Spot: Psychiatrist (Shelter Signs)
23. The Spirit of Memphis Quartet: Atomic Telephone (background)
24. The Goons (Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan): A Russian Love Song (background)
25. Red McCoy with the Sons of the Soil: Rock And Roll Atom (background)
26. Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Ballad Of Francis Powers (There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere)
27. Howard Duff: Civil Defense Spot: Remember, 640-1240
28. Mike Russo: Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) (background)
29. Bo Diddley: Mr. Khruschev
30. Toni Fisher, and the Wayne Shanklin Orchestra: West Of The Wall (background)
31. Chris Cerf: (My) Fallout Filly (With The Atomic Kiss) (background)
32. Jay Chevalier: Khrushchev And The Devil
33. Dexter Logan and Darrell Edwards: The Song Of The Atom Bomb
34. Sammy Cahn and Paul Weston: Civil Defense March (Heads Up America) (background)
35. Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency (Brilliant Nuclear Flash)

1. Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have? (Fortress Main Street)
2. Billy Hughes and his Rhythm Buckeroos: Atomic Sermon (background)
3. Buddy Hawk and his Buddies: Death Of Joe Stalin (Good Riddance)
4. Golden Gate Quartet: Atom and Evil (background)
5. Tommy Duncan: Relax And Take It Easy (background)
6. Connie Francis: Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, for Survival Tomorrow
7. Rudy Gaddis: Uranium Fever (background)
8. Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang: Atom Bomb Baby (background)
9. Janet Greene: Poor Left-Winger (background)
10. Jimmie Driftwood: The Bear Flew Over The Ocean (background)
11. Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Basic Supplies)
12. Dexter Gordon: Bikini (background)
13. Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Trial Of Francis Powers (background)
14. Don Meehan: An Open Letter To Khrushchev
15. Bradley Kincaid: Brush The Dust From That Old Bible
16. Joni James: Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing
17. Al Barkle with the Tri-Tones: Sputnik II (background)
18. The Buchanan Brothers: (You Got To Pray To The Lord) When You See Those Flying Saucers (background)
19. Loy Clingman: Uranium Blues (background)
20. The Louvin Brothers: Weapon Of Prayer
21. Announcer: Don Pardo: Civil Defense Spot: Message from Mars (CONELRAD Jingle)
22. George McKelvey: My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) (background)
23. Unidentified: H-Bomb
24. The Charades: Hammers And Sickles (background)
25. Jerry Engler and the Four Ekkos: Sputnik (Satellite Girl) (background)
26. Johnny Cash: Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves
27. Harold Weakley: To Russia With Care (background)
28. Bobby Marchan and the Clowns: Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain (background)
29. Prescott Reed: Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down)
30. Carl Perkins: Tennessee
31. Ferlin 'Terry Preston' Husky: Let's Keep The Communists Out
32. Don Windle: The Iron Curtain Has Parted
33. Bing Crosby and Ken Carpenter: Stars For Defense Outro

Ch. 40 - The Stalemated Seventies

Resources

• Chapter 40 .PDF
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Approaching the Apocalypse (YouTube) (Study Guide)
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Starting Over (YouTube) (Study Guide)
• Lecture: The Vietnam War (.doc)
• Lecture: The Nixon Enigma (.doc)
• Chapter 40 Outline

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Ch. 19: Surprises (Discussion Guide)

• Nixon American Youth Campaign Commercial (1968)
• Nixon Together Campain Commercial (1968)
• Nixon's the One Campaign Commercial (1968)
• Nixon Vietnam War Campaign Commercial (1968)

The Nixon Landslide of 1972 (p. 954)

• "Nixon Now" Campaign Commercial (1972)

• Watch All the President's Men 

• Watch Nixon 

Ch. 39 - The Stormy Sixties

Resources

• Chapter 39 .PDF
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Unpinned 1963-1968 (YouTube) (Study Guide)
• Lecture: When America Changed (.doc)
• Lecture: The Progressivism of LBJ and Earl Warren (.doc)
• Chapter 39 Outline

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chapter 18: The Impossible Victory: Vietnam (Discussion Guide)

• Watch "In the Year of the Pig" (1968) (Amazon Instant) (YouTube)

• Martin Luther King Jr. Addresses the March on Washington (1963)

• Listen to Radio Dallas - The Kennedy Assassination (1963)
• Watch JFK (Amazon Instant)

• LBJ's "Ice Cream" Campaign Commercial (1964)
• LBJ's "Daisy" Campaign Commercial (1964)

• Watch Malcolm X (Amazon Instant) 
• Malcolm X Speeches - Playlists on YouTube
• History of the Black Panther Party from Civil Rights Teaching (.PDF)
• Watch "All Power to the People" (2 hrs)

• Watch Sir! No Sir!
• See: Vietnam (Anti-War Comic Book, 1967)
• Country Joe McDonald's "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die" - See: Vietnam Protest Songs 

Ch. 38 - The Eisenhower Era

• Chapter 38 .PDF
• Talking Points: The Election of '52, Eisenhower, and Moderate Republicanism (.doc)
• Talking Points: Ike and the Cold War Spike (.doc)
• Lecture: The Range of Civil Rights Activism (.doc)
• Chapter 38 Outline
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Happy Daze (YouTube) (Study Guide)
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Poisoned Dreams 1960-1963 (YouTube) (Study Guide)

• "Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Architectural Packaging of the Mythic West" by Michael Steiner, Montanta, The Magazine of Western History 47 (Spring 1998) - Disucssion

• Watch Good Night, and Good Luck

• Read Desegregation at Central High School (Beals) and answer question(s). (1957) 
• Read Desegregation at Central High School (Rains) and answer question(s). (1957)

• Pro-Kennedy Song: "High Hopes with Jack Kennedy" by Sinatra (1960 - Lyrics)
• "Kennedy for President" 1960 Commercial
• JFK Election Ad: Ike Knocks Nixon (1960)
• More Nixon/Kennedy election ads can be found here

• Listen to JFK's Inaugural Address (1961)

• Read an excerpt from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and answer question(s). (1963)

 

• Chapter 37 .PDF
• Lecture: Truman and Eisenhower (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Truman Show (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Cold War Begins (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Cold War in Asia (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Cold War Comes Home (.doc)
• Chapter 37 Outline
• Watch: The Century, America's Time: The Best Years (YouTube) (Study Guide)

Readings

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chapter 17: "Or Does It Explode?" (Discussion Guide)
• The Big Change in Suburbia, Part I by Frederick Allen Lewis, Harper's magazine, June, 1954
• The Big Change in Suburbia, Part II by Frederick Allen Lewis, Harper's magzine, July, 1954

The Rush to the Suburbs (p. 864)

• Post-War Promises from Envisioning the American Dream

 

The Suburbanites (p. 868)

 

Ferreting Out Alleged Communists (p. 879)

• Read Statement on Civil Liberties in America and answer question(s). (1956)
• Watch Trumbo (See also, Woody Allen's The Front)

Life in the Atomic Age (not covered by textbook)

• Read "Life in a Shelter" and answer question(s).
• Watch The Atomic Cafe (Netflix)
• Listen to music from Atomic Platters...

 

The Military Seesaw in Korea (p. 884)

• Watch Korea: The Forgotten War
• Watch Truman

Links:

• Retro-a-Rama: Curating Mid-Century Consumer Culture and Envisioning the American Dream by Sally Edelstein

• Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security (Track listings with YouTube links can be found here)

• Eyes on the Prize: Series I —America’s Civil Rights Years 1954 - 1965
• Eyes on the Prize: Series II - America's Civil Rights Years 1965 - mid-1980s

• The Crucial Decade: America, 1945-1955 by E. F. Goldman (1956)
• I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy by Herbert Philbrick - a memoir that became a popular television series