Soviet Factory Escape Room

Soviet Factory ESCAPE Room

Cold War Review

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THE MISSION

You are a spy who invaded a factory in the Soviet Union to collect intel, but now you are lost, and it seems like they are onto you! You must collect as much intel as you can, escape the factory, and return home safely.

THE base

Look around the room to find the intel you need. Don't let them see you!

QUESTION 1/3

Warsaw Pact

Find the name of the military alliance created by the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe.

Marshall Plan

QUESTION 2/3

Demilitarized Zone

separated North Korea and South Korea after the armistice that ended the Korean War

Suez Canal

QUESTION 3/3

Warsaw Pact

Communist countries of Eastern Europe that were dependent on the Soviet Union

Satellite Nations

THE base

Quick! No one is here. Collect some intel and move quickly.

QUESTION 1/3

take military action to uphold a UN resolution.

The United Nations was offi cially organized in 1945 with a Security Council responsible for international peace and security. The Security Council could ask its members to

contain Communist expansion

negotiate agreements on trade and development.

QUESTION 2/3

the United States had a right to use the atomic bomb.

At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry Truman took a fi rm stand against heavy reparations and insisted that

Germany’s industry had to be allowed to recover

the Soviets’ concerns about security were unreasonable.

QUESTION 3/3

the establishment of pro-Soviet Communist governments in Eastern Europe

In 1946 what did Winston Churchill describe as an “iron curtain” falling across Eastern Europe?

the adoption of the Declaration of Liberated Europe

the industrialization of Eastern European nations under the Marshall Plan

the base

Maybe if you sneak around the dark room you can read that over his shoulder...

QUESTION 1/3

providing aid to European nations.

In the document known as the Long Telegram, U.S. diplomat George Kennan expressed his opinion that the Soviet Union had major economic and political weaknesses and proposed a policy of

containment of Soviet expansion.

engaging in covert operations.

QUESTION 2/3

Marshall Plan

In response to Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey, President Truman outlined a policy known as the __________, which pledged the United States to fi ght the spreadof communism worldwide.

Berlin Airlift

Truman Doctrine

QUESTION 3/3

punish Germany for its role in World War II

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

help Western Europe recover from World War II.

keep Communist countries weak.

the base

Be quiet so you don't get caught! I wonder what they are hiding in here...

QUESTION 1/3

massive retaliation.

an iron curtain.

The informal relationship between the military and the defense industry that some people believe infl uences government policy, particularly military spending, is known as

a subversion.

a military-industrial complex.

QUESTION 2/3

covert operations.

economic embargoes.

To prevent developing nations from allying themselves with the Soviet Union or falling to Communist uprisings, President Eisenhower decided to use

massive retaliation.

economic aid.

QUESTION 3/3

started Project Venona in an attempt to crack the Soviet spy code.

turned over documents proving that Soviets were trying to infiltrate the U.S. government.

The post-World War II Red Scare began in 1945, when a clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, defected and

urged the U.S. government to establish a loyalty review program and pass the McCarran Act.

testified before the U.S. Congress that there were Communists in Hollywood.

the base

You are almost out! Just one long, dark hallway to go.

QUESTION 1/3

duck-and-cover

lockdown

drills performed by American school children in preparation for a Soviet attack

emergency alert system

fallout

QUESTION 2/3

J. Edgar Hoover

Philip Wylie

wrote the novel Tomorrow! to educate the public about the horrors of atomic war

Tom Sawyer

Ernest Hemingway

QUESTION 3/3

Douglas MacArthur

Philip Wylie

FBI director who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on Communist subversion

J. Edgar Hoover

Harry Truman

Mission Complete

You've collected all intel, escaped the Soviet factory and are on your way back home. Well done!

START OVER?

Are you sure you want to go out?

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MISSION FAILED

You've been caught by the Soviet factory security. You are on your way to Soviet prison where you will await execution.

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