Make your classroom more fun and engaging with this thrilling and competitive activity. This exciting game has students scramble to solve and decode clues in pairs using their knowledge of AP World History: Modern to exit the Escape Room! The game is ready-to-go. Once you understand the game, you simply print the materials and go!

Includes NINE different Escape Room Activities

NOTE: These activities are meant to be used AFTER students have learned the material.

Game includes all required materials:

• A set of instructions and keys for the teacher
• A student packet with instructions and materials
• Puzzles, scenarios, and terminology the students know and solve
• Depending on the class, the game can take anywhere from 25-45 minutes to complete–sometimes longer!

AP World History Modern Units Covered

• Period 1 – Unit Guide Learning Objective 1.4
• Period 2 – Unit Guide Learning Objectives 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, & 4.5
• Period 3 – Unit Guide Learning Objectives 5.1, and 5.3-5.9
• Period 4 – Unit Guide Learning Objectives 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.4, 8.5, 8.8

Aztec and Inca Civilizations

• Aztec Empire & Administration
• Aztec Society & Culture
• Inca Empire & Administration
• Inca Society & Culture

Colonialism

• Colonial Settlement & Funding
• Mercantilism
• Exploration & Commerce
• The Columbian Exchange
• Triangular Trade

Age of Enlightenment

• Thomas Hobbes
• The Leviathan
• social contract theory
• John Locke
• natural rights
• consent of the governed
• Voltaire
• religious toleration
• Baron de Montesquieu
• separation of powers
• legislative branch
• executive branch
• judicial branch

Industrial Revolution

• First Industrial Revolution
• Second Industrial Revolution
• Communication Technology
• Industrial Society
• Working Class Organizations

World War I

• Western and Eastern Fronts
• Entente and Central Powers
• trench warfare
• machine guns
• mustard gas
• unrestricted submarine warfare
• barbed wire
• Battle of the Somme
• Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Versailles
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Start of World War II

• appeasement
• blitzkrieg
• fascism
• conditions and events that led to war in Europe
• conditions and events that led to war in Asia

The Cold War

• Yalta Conference
• atomic bomb
• the Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• proxy wars
• the Berlin War
• the Space Race

The Vietnam War

• Bipolar Cold War
• communism & nationalism in Vietnam
• Vietnam War major events, figures, and groups
• guerrilla warfare

End of the Cold War

• glasnost and perestroika
• Cold War and US/USSR
• Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev
• arms race / rollback
• Poland / Revolutions of 1989