History Main / InvadedStatesOfAmerica

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* In short, successfully conquering the USA is likely all but impossible: The US has friendly, relatively weaker countries north and south of it and is protected from Invasion east and west by thousands of miles of ocean, over which every soldier, bean, and bullet would have to travel. In addition, the US is replete with an abundance of natural resources, a huge size and population, and the most advanced military on Earth. And on top of that, it has 5000 nuclear weapons capable of incinerating any potential invasion force long before it reaches shore. See [[Analysis/InvadedStatesOfAmerica the Analysis page]] for more details.

* In short, successfully conquering the USA is likely all but impossible: The US has friendly, relatively weaker countries north and south of it and is protected from Invasion east and west by thousands of miles of ocean, over which every soldier, bean, and bullet would have to travel. In addition, the US is replete with an abundance of natural resources, a huge size and population, and the most advanced military on Earth. And on top of that, it has 5000 nuclear weapons capable of incinerating any potential invasion force long before it reaches shore.

* In short, successfully conquering the USA is likely all but impossible: The US has friendly countries north and south of it and is protected from Invasion east and west by thousands of miles of ocean, over which every soldier, bean, and bullet would have to travel. In addition, the US is replete with an abundance of natural resources, a huge size and population, and the most advanced military on Earth. And on top of that, it has 5000 nuclear weapons capable of incinerating any potential invasion force long before it reaches shore.

* Somewhat obviously, ''Film/InvasionUSA1952'' and to a lesser extent ''Film/InvasionUSA1985''.

* In short, successfully conquering the USA is likely all but impossible: The US has friendly countries north and south of it and is protected from Invasion east and west by thousands of miles of ocean, over which every soldier, bean, and bullet would have to travel. In addition, the US is replete with an abundance of natural resources, a huge size and population, and the most advanced military on Earth.

* The pulp 1980's series ''Doomsday Warrior'' is set AfterTheEnd in a Soviet-occupied America with LaResistance operating out of [[UndergroundCity hidden conclaves]]. Somehow the Americans have got the best of the deal; [[NuclearMutant mutation]] has developed these Freefighters into {{Super Soldier}}s who use secretly-developed {{Ray Gun}}s to curb-stomp the DirtyCommunists. Realism needless to say is [[RuleOfCool not a priority in these books.]]

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* An old 1980s [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac]] game called ''[[https://www.macintoshrepository.org/5317-red-stars-white-nights Red Stars, White Nights]]'' depicted a Soviet Invasion of the United States. The objective of the Soviet side was to capture all American cities, where as the Americans just needed to prevent that.

* Took place in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' backstory just prior to the nuclear war, when the Chinese forces invaded Anchorage. It was eventually repulsed. The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' ExpansionPack ''Operation Anchorage'' takes the player character through a VR simulation of the Anchorage Reclamation.

* ''Literature/{{Winchester}}'' :In the backstory's alternate WWII, Japan managed to invade Alaska before the war devolved into nuclear bombing runs between the Axis and Allies.

The background of the invasion usually varies on when the work is set. If it is set pre-1990, it is usually a Cold War that got hot or some other form of AlternateHistory, such as Nazi Germany and/or UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan carving an isolationist America up once they've finished conquering the rest of the world. TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture will sometimes depict a (dystopian) USA that is no longer a Super-Power but merely a Great (e.g. as it was in 1900) or Second-Rate (e.g. as in 1850) or Third-rate (e.g. 1812) Power that would genuinely be threatened by an invasion from a rival power. NextSundayAD settings will usually be very similar to the Twenty Minutes setting, usually featuring a [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Russian]] or [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld Chinese invasion]]. The US's nuclear arsenal almost never gets employed during these stories, despite the fact it'd be a deterrent as per the whole 'MAD' thing, though its non-use is often hand-waved away by the proliferation of some [[Main/AppliedPhlebotinum new technology]] and/or [[AWizardDidIt magic]] -- or by the governments simply going "better to try reclaiming what's ours than doom the whole world". Some works give a handwave towards Mexico becoming unfriendly in the years leading up to the war, so that it can be plausibly used as a base for an invasion (the most common example is a Communist Mexico allied with the Soviet Union).