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17	->''"Heard about UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}?''\
18	''Heard about UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}?''\
19	''Heard about UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}, PA?"''
20	-->-- '''Music/TalkingHeads''', [[Music/FearOfMusic "Life During Wartime"]]
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22	A plot device that depicts the United States as a target of foreign occupation by another (nation-)state or states. The work will usually focus on the heroic efforts of either or both the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US Armed Forces]] and the LaResistance as they try to defend their homeland.
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24	The background of the invasion usually varies on when the work is set. If it is set pre-1990, it is usually [[WorldWarIII a Cold War that got hot]] or some other form of AlternateHistory, such as [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory 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).
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26	If done right, can make for an interesting plot. However, can also be {{Anvilicious}} if it is too blatant a rip-off of any real-life war, especially one in which the US was actually involved. It's also rare for the actual logistics of such an invasion to even be described, because it's hard to do so realistically. The United States' geographical isolation from every other major military power means an invasion would be ''very'' difficult, but since the logistics aren't really the point of these stories that usually gets handwaved if not outright ignored.
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28	See also MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack and RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack for more specific examples of this trope. Contrast with WarComesHome, which may be more generic and do not focus on actual real locations. DividedStatesOfAmerica / SecondAmericanCivilWar sometimes goes hand-in-hand, as other nations come into the country to act as peacekeepers, to secure international interests, or to conquer the splintered US. Goes hand-in-hand with OccupiersOutOfOurCountry, FallenStatesOfAmerica and DayOfTheJackboot. May or may not involve a WashingtonDCInvasion. If the bad guys have invaded all the rest of world and left America for last, only to be defeated there, then AmericaSavesTheDay.
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30	SubTrope of DifferentStatesOfAmerica and PossibleWar.
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32	'''Note that the trope only counts for ''human'' invasions on US soil, not [[AlienInvasion alien invasions]].''' (And not ''[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant that]]'' kind of "[[TheIllegal alien]] invasion" either.)
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38	[[folder:Comic Books]]
39	* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}: Invasion'' features an invasion of the continental United States by an army of Nazi super soldiers. They proceed to rampage across the country in scorched earth tactics and destroy numerous cities, including New York City and Washington D.C., while the Americans attempt to stall them while building their own super soldiers. Then the Japanese attack with their ''own'' super soldier on the West Coast in a more haphazard guerilla campaign. [[spoiler:The invasion is finally halted when the Japanese turn their attention to the Soviet Union, and out of the two Nazi "Battleship" Ubers spearheading the campaign, one is killed, while the other defects, causing the rest of the Nazi invasion force to either surrender or [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide to prevent their capture]].]]
40	* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The Liberators invade the U.S., level the Statue of Liberty, and plan to execute major government figures.
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44	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': In the climax, the Canadian Armed Forces invade Colorado to rescue Terrance and Phillip from execution. This is after the Americans themselves already attacked Toronto and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName interned Canadians in "Happy Camps"]].
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47	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
48	* Parodied in ''Film/CanadianBacon'': three random schlubs thinks that the US is being invaded by Canada. HilarityEnsues.
49	* In ''Film/EscapeFromLA'', a united, [[DirtyCommunists Shining Path]]-led Latin America is on the verge of invading the US.
50	* {{Discussed\|Trope}} in ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine''. Blaine's gang thinks that the time traveling main characters are actually Soviet spies, due to their odd behavior, and the modern-day gadgets that he found in their bags. He mentions the film ''Film/RedDawn1984'', which he owns a poster of in his room.
51	* Discussed in ''Film/PearlHarbor'' during Roosevelt's first meeting with his advisers after the namesake attack. One general, in underlining just how poor a state the US military is in, states that if the Japanese invaded at that moment they would get as far east as Chicago.
52	* Somewhat obviously, ''Film/InvasionUSA1952'' (full blown Communist offensive) and to a lesser extent ''Film/InvasionUSA1985'' (infiltration by a Soviet-funded terrorist force that goes on an indiscriminate killing spree and [[AnAssKickingChristmas disrupts the holidays]]).
53	* ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaExperimentII'': David Herdeg is sent to an AlternateHistory where the Nazis won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and occupied the U.S.
54	* ''Film/RedDawn1984'': A classic example, in which the USSR invades the Western United States (via a Communist Mexico) and a group of high schoolers' efforts to stop it. [[Film/RedDawn2012 The remake]] has North Korean invaders (originally [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld Chinese]], but changed in order to have it marketable there).
55	* ''Film/SixStringSamurai''. Soviet army remnants show up on the path to Vegas. They aren't in particularly good shape (they ran out of bullets some four decades before the movie takes place), but then no-one else is either.
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59	* Robert Conroy's AlternateHistory novel ''1901'' concerns a relatively limited invasion of the Northeast in the title year by the forces of [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany Kaiser Wilhelm II]]. The Kaiser's objective here is not to conquer the United States outright, but to force the U.S. to turn over its newly-won colonial possessions of Puerto Rico and the Philippines by essentially holding New York City and surrounding areas for ransom. He also intended to confiscate the U.S. Navy, which America ''wouldn't need'' once it had no overseas territory. Unfortunately (for the Germans), the Kaiser didn't reckon with UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt...
60	** This novel is actually based on perfectly real - albeit only theoretical - Imperial German Navy plans for war with USA (over former Spanish colonies) in late XIX - early XX century.
61	** Conroy likes to play with the scenario of (usually) German invasions of the USA. His novel ''1920: America's Great War'' posits a scenario in which the U.S., having remained neutral (and the Central Powers thus having won the Great War) is faced with an assault by Germany into California from a German-allied Mexico, and his ebook ''North Reich'' has Hitler deciding to not declare war on the U.S. after Pearl Harbor, instead concentrating on knocking Great Britain out of the war, occupying Canada and invading the United States from the north circa 1943.
62	** While Hawaii was not yet a state at the time of the novel's setting, Conroy's ''1942'' depicts the Japanese occupying the islands after the attack on Pearl Harbor proves even more successful than in real life.
63	* In ''Literature/AxisOfTime'', Hawaii ends up being taken by the Japanese in the AlternateHistory UsefulNotes/WorldWarII thanks to the use of 21st century tech. The islands are eventually recovered by the US, [[spoiler:but the tyrannical Japanese governor slaughters 90% of the population out of spite]].
64	* Rita Mae Brown's novel ''Dolley'' deals with the context for only actual historical invasion of the United States, by the British Army and Royal Marines during the war of 1812.
65	* The pulp 1980s series ''Literature/DoomsdayWarrior'' 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]].
66	* ''The Fall Of A Nation'' by Thomas Dixon (author of ''The Klansman'', aka ''Literature/TheBirthOfANation''). Written prior to US involvement in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, it has the United States refusing to intervene in the Great War, which stalls to a stalemate. Peace is declared, but it's actually a ruse to allow the combined armies of Europe to invade America.
67	* ''Free Flight'' by Douglas Terman takes place in a post-[=WW3=] Soviet-occupied North America. Instead of the usual gung-ho OccupiersOutOfOurCountry story, the plot involves the protagonist trying to escape to a remote region of Canada via a motorised glider, while pursued by TheQuisling.
68	* Eric L Harry's ''Invasion'' has Chine invading the good old USA thanks to US disarmament. Apparently the blinkered government continued to draw down the US military despite the Chinese conquering the world by ''going West'' (having nuked Israel and beseiged Europe).
69	* The apocalyptic novel ''Resurrection Day'' is set in a USA where the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a nuclear exchange. With the Soviet Union destroyed, Communism fallen, and the USA crippled, the power vacuum leads to a resurgent Britain reversing its post-imperial decline - blamed on American interference - and plotting to avenge the whole 1776 business by grabbing back its North American colonies. And then some. The "Resurrection" of the title is Britain's rebirth as an undisputed world superpower, if only by default as the only country not touched by nuclear holocaust.
70	* ''Lightning In The Night'', a novel by Fred Allhoff originally serialized in ''Liberty'' magazine during 1940, recounts, in pulp-magazine style, an invasion of the United States by a grand alliance of [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]], UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn the Soviet Union]] circa 1945.
71	* ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'': Set after the fact, this book depicts an alternate 1960s in which the US was taken over by Japan and Germany from the West and East coasts respectively. The Rocky Mountain States is a Japanese puppet.
72	* ''Literature/TheMouseThatRoared'': The Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the U.S. with the intent of losing immediately and raking in the reparation money. So they send over a small army in Medieval armor and spears, expecting to surrender upon reaching American soil. [[SpringtimeForHitler It doesn't quite work out that way.]]
73	* Creator/CyrilMKornbluth's novel ''Literature/NotThisAugust'' begins with the surrender of the U.S. to Soviet and Chinese forces. The novel itself is about the resistance movement.
74	* Gloriously depicted in Floyd Gibbons' ''Literaure/TheRedNapoleon'', where the US and Canada make a last stand against HordesFromTheEast led by a [[YellowPeril Communist dictator and alleged descendant of Genghis Khan]] who has already conquered the rest of the world -- and the Americans win.
75	* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/SixthColumn'' a small group of American soldiers use weapons based on [[AppliedPhlebotinum the convenient discovery of a couple of new fundamental forces]] to fight the invasion of the United States by [[YellowPeril "PanAsia"]], including founding a [[ScamReligion fake new religion]] as a cover for LaResistance.
76	* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'': Happens as a NoodleIncident. A Fourth World "army of economic liberation" lands in the southern United States and promptly gets massacred due to the US secret RobotWar technology. Not to mention they US has rigged the computer chips in the weapons they've been [[BatmanGambit selling internationally for the past few decades to detonate upon command]].
77	* ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'': US is just one of the [[EarthIsABattlefield many countries]] invaded by [[LizardFolk the Race]]. Traveling through the country becomes dangerous, supply lines are cut off, people are forced to make do with what they can scrounge. Some of the states end up in Race hands, but, by the end of the main series, the Race vacate the country as part of a peace settlement with the [[InsistentTerminology not-empires]] that manage to hold them off (e.g. US, USSR, Nazi Germany, Japan, UK). Oh, and some cities are nuked by both sides.
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81	* The miniseries ''Series/{{Amerika}}'' shows a Soviet-occupied US ten years after the invasion. Subverted though in that the US surrendered without much of a fight after an EMP pulse took out most communications. Most Americans are more interested in getting on with life than resisting. ''Amerika'' was a work that was developed as an apology to [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies conservatives]], particularly the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan Administration]], in response to ''Film/TheDayAfter''. The latter showed how terrible a nuclear war would be for the (many) survivors; the former argued how a Soviet victory would also be unacceptable.
82	* Like the [[Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle novel it is based on]], ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'' depicts a United States ruled by the Axis Powers except for a central Wild West-like region in the Rocky Mountain States which is allowed to be independent as a buffer zone.
83	* Parodied by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' as "[=Amerida=]", a vision of what America would be like after a Canadian invasion and takeover.
84	* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'':
85	** The second episode featured a Soviet-occupied USA.
86	** Another episode showed a [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack California that's part of Mexico]], after the US lost the Mexican-American War. Somewhat unusually, the Mexican west is implied to be a prosperous and functional society, whose main flaw is [[PersecutionFlip their discrimination against illegal immigrants from Canada.]]
87	** One episode features a world where the US lost the Revolution and never existed, so the country is all part of England.
88	** Yet another episode briefly features a French-controlled USA. In this reality, Napoleon won over in Europe, never sold Louisiana to the US, and eventually conquered the rest of America.
89	* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Several episodes featured an alternate 1940s in which the Nazis, equipped with alien technology, were able to capture portions of the East Coast.
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93	* Propaganda example: in 1916, ''Life'' magazine published [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/9b/0a/4d9b0aca0818632bf09a402dcbe44408.jpg this]] hypothetical division of America by the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne Central Powers]] (and also Japan for [[YellowPeril some reason]]). It features such delightful places as the "Gulf of Hate", the "Straits of Horror", and the cities of "New Berlin", "Gotterdammerungham", and "Nietzsche".
94	* As the storm clouds gathered over Europe and the Far East, PulpMagazine hero ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_No._5 Secret Service Operator #5]]'' (1934 - 1939) fought attempts by various foreign armies from South America, [[ThoseWackyNazis Europe]] and the [[YellowPeril Orient]] to conquer the United States. The events are completely over-the-top as befits the pulp genre, except for the time the Japs destroy an entire city (Philadelphia) with their evil atomic bomb. [[HarsherInHindsight Only Orientals would do such a dastardly deed...]]
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98	* ''TabletopGame/AxisAndAllies'' is a World War II simulation. Invading the US is ''possible'' but pretty unlikely (it's usually easier for the Axis to get the two-capitals win condition by taking out Britain and the Soviet Union).
99	* ''Case Geld'', published by Compass Games in its magazine ''Paper Wars'' in 2022, is a two-map game covering, like ''SS Amerika'' (see entry below) a hypothetical invasion of the United States by the Axis powers in the mid-1940's. The particularly notable thing about this game is that it's an updated version of a game designed but never published by SPI in the 1970's, which reportedly got the best feedback for a game proposal in the company's history but never came to fruition because of the perceived controversiality of the topic.
100	* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': In 1877, the British invade from Canada and capture Detroit in retaliation for American military adventurism along the Canadian border.
101	* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_America Fortress America]]'' (1986), a Creator/MiltonBradley board game. The U.S. is invaded by three international coalitions: the Euro-Socialist Pact, the Central American Federation and the Asian Peoples Alliance. Hey, wait a minute... The box cover for the first edition of this game contains a portrait of none other than UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein (changed for later editions). This edition of the game is now a collector's item. Also, there are some significant differences between ''Invasion: America'' and ''Fortress America''; among other things, the former game covers the whole North American continent from the Arctic to the Panama Canal, done in typical hexagonal-map-and-paper-counter SPI/Avalon Hill, and the MB game covers only the continental United States and is done in the general style of ''TabletopGame/AxisAndAllies''.
102	* The ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'' setting for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' includes the "Erde" setting where the Axis powers won World War II and used a combination of brain-powered war machines, nuclear weapons, and mystic cataclysms to shatter the backbone of the U.S. resistance. The ''Time of Crisis'' adventure involves the heroes helping LaResistance to neutralize the war machines in the process of fighting a cosmic threat.
103	* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_America_(board_wargame) Invasion America]]'' (1976) board wargame by [=SPI=] (Simulations Publications Inc.). The U.S. is invaded by a loose alliance of three international coalitions: the European Socialist Coalition (a Soviet-led alliance which can invade the U.S. from bases in Cuba), the South American Union (which is described in some places as essentially a coalition of right-wing dictatorships) and the Pan Asiatic League (an Asian alliance under the aegis of Communist China). While the three invading forces are not technically hostile to each other, neither are they allies, so they can't actually cooperate against the defending Americans and Canadians. The popularity of this game spawned a companion piece the next year, ''Objective: Moscow'', detailing invasions of the Soviet Union by various coalitions of the Western Allies and China from the 1970's to the end of the 20th Century.
104	* ''The Price of Freedom'' [=RPG=] from West End Games, inspired by the film ''Film/RedDawn1984''. After the Soviets develop an orbital defense system that neutralizes America's strategic nuclear weapons, Soviet occupation forces enter and take over the U.S. The {{PC}}s are American freedom fighters who wage a guerrilla war against the invaders.
105	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. After the U.S. was split up into the DividedStatesOfAmerica, Aztlan (formerly known as Mexico) invaded both the southern part of California Free State and the Confederated American States, though they were able to minimize the territorial losses. California was also briefly under the control of a rogue Japanese general.
106	* ''SS Amerika'' by 3W Games presents an invasion of North America (like ''Invasion: America'', covering the entire continent) by various Axis forces during the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII era. This is, aside from ''Objective: Moscow'', the largest and most detailed tabletop game of this particular subgenre (four full-sized standard wargame maps), with units at the division level including the entire U.S. Army and Marine Corps WWII order of battle, plus British Commonwealth, German, Italian and Japanese units, and even contingents from various Latin American nations which can come in on either the Allied or Axis side depending on various in-game events or scenario preconditions.
107	* The World War II board game ''World in Flames'' has a variant where America is invaded by a victorious Germany called, appropriately, ''America in Flames''.
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111	* ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' series: The ''Armored Fury'' booster pack for ''Battlefield 2'' depicts maps set in Alaska and Pennsylvania as US forces defended their homeland against Chinese and Middle Eastern Collation Forces. ''[[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Bad Company 2]]'' has several multiplayer maps set in Alaska, and [[spoiler:the ending depicts Russian forces advancing on the northern border of the US]]. Averted in ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'', as the levels that take place in New York are about stopping a terrorist attack, not an invasion.
112	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
113	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' has several levels set in Northern Virginia and D.C. The invaders are not the ''actual'' Soviet Union, since the game takes place long after the end of the Cold War, but the Ultranationalist party which has taken over Russia in the game's timeline is a pretty effective substitute. The third game has them fighting in New York City as well, before finally being pushed off US soil after their defeat there. Appropriately, the first mission set in the invaded U.S. is called [[Film/RedDawn1984 Wolverines!]], and the achievement for beating it on Veteran is Red Dawn.
114	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' plays with this-- the US ''is'' invaded...by its own unmanned combat drones, which have been hacked to serve terrorist leader Raul Menendez's bidding. They manage to get boots on the ground as well, in the form of his [[NGOSuperpower mercenary army]]; LA is successfully laid waste to, and they make it as far as New York City and DC before [[spoiler:Menendez self-destructs the drones to leave America defenceless.]]
115	** This is also part of the plot for ''Videogame/CallOfDutyGhosts'': The bad guys (in this case a league of hostile South American governments) have hijacked an American superweapon system that is turned on the US, devastating the country and leaving it ripe to a conventional invasion.
116	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'':
117	** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has an ostensibly puppet Soviet government invade the United States with the aid of psychic powers to neutralize the American nuclear arsenal.
118	** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' is more global, but both the Imperial and Soviet campaigns feature invasions of the United States at some point:
119	*** The Japanese invade LA so the Emperor can broadcast propaganda to remove the U.S. from the war, the Soviets destroy the Statue of Liberty. [[spoiler: Going after President Ackerman at Mt. Rushmore in the Allied campaign after he goes rogue may or may not count.]]
120	*** And inverted with the ''Allied'' attack on Pearl Harbor... since Hawaii belongs to Japan in this timeline.
121	*** The Challenge missions have some Soviet and Imperial missions set in the US, notably the one with giant bears on the east coast and the Psionic Decimator on the west.
122	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'': During one mission, the GLA send a strike force to attack the US west coast, partially to steal chemical weapons from an American base, and partially to [[BatmanGambit trick the Americans into pulling their forces out of Europe on the basis of strengthening homeland defense]].
123	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': Never actually seen in-game, but background information, along with some side info that you may or may not run into mention the Russian-Mexican War, in which they attempted to [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack take back territories captured in the Mexican-American War.]] By the time the game starts, southern Texas is under Mexican control.
124	* ''VideoGame/EndWar'': Battles can take place in the United States.
125	* Took place in ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' backstory just prior to the nuclear war, when the Chinese forces invaded Anchorage. It was eventually repulsed. The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' ExpansionPack ''Operation Anchorage'' takes the player character through a VR simulation of the Anchorage Reclamation.
126	** Descendants from a beached Chinese submarine crew can be found around what is left of San Francisco.
127	** Ghoulified Chinese infiltrators can be found in a factory in Washington D.C. in ''3''.
128	** ''Point Lookout'' has a wrecked Chinese spy submarine as part of one of its sidequests.
129	* Eventual end result of the Soviets developing the atomic bomb first and dropping it on Berlin in the back story of ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters2003''.
130	* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'': The basic plot of the game is the United States under occupation by a resurgent North Korea.
131	** ''VideoGame/HomefrontTheRevolution'': The US is occupied by a ultra neo-liberal North Korea, who in this timeline became the world's number one technological super power and high-end arms supplier, leading to most of the first-world depending on their technology and weaponry. After the US government is unable to pay a huge debt to the North Korean Government (who is controlled by the APEX Corporation), they decide to turn off the entire American military with a kill-switch and later occupying the nation under the pretext of giving aid to the American population and restoring order but secretly using them for slave labor to "cover the debt".
132	* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'': In the game's AlternateHistory version of the late 80's/early 90's, the Cold War went hot, and several members of the EnsembleCast fought against Soviet troops in Hawaii, which makes up some of the playable missions. The U.S. capitulated in the war after the Soviets [[NukeEm nuked San Francisco]].
133	* ''Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope:'' MutuallyAssuredDestruction normally keeps even the hateful nations of this timeline from actually trying this. ''Normally.'' If Goering succeeds during the German Civil War, however, he takes to the idea of ForeverWar (since the Reich's glory days were in war) and needs to implement one war plan after the other to keep himself from being couped by militarists even more insane than he is... and near the end of his options, he can implement Fall Rockwell, which is a massive naval invasion of the USA. Unsurprisingly, this ends either one of two ways: With the Germanic fleet carpeting the Pacific seafloor in steel and corpses, or in thermonuclear war and the end of the world.
134	* An old 1980s [[Platform/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.
135	* ''VideoGame/RelicOfWar'': The Allied campaign focuses on the Allies fighting back the Axis after they successfully invaded the American East Coast.
136	* ''VideoGame/RiseOfNations'': In the Cold War campaign, besides starting a [[NukeEm nuclear war]] with them, the Soviets can also stage a conventional invasion of the United States.
137	* The basis of ''Roadwar 2000'' from 1986, but first the invaders released [[ThePlague A Bioengineered Plague]].
138	* ''VideoGame/ShatteredUnion'': Despite the main conflict being the [[DividedStatesOfAmerica Second American Civil War]], foreign parties also take interest, and participate directly, in the war itself. On the eastern side, the European Union sends peacekeeping forces to the Washington D.C. area to secure international interests and set up a provisional government after terrorists essentially decapitated the existing one via nuclear attack, but their presence is so unpopular that it almost immediately causes several regions to secede from the Union; after hostilities finally break out, the European Union decides to go ahead and just pacify the entire country. Meanwhile, on the western regions Russian Federation takes the opportunity to invade and annex Alaska while the rest of the country is busy fighting.
139	* One trailer for ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion: Heavy Armor'' depicts an American invasion of Manhattan in 2080. The opposing force is implied to be related to the United Nations in some way.
140	* ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'': Set in an alternate 1950s in which the US stayed neutral in World War II and in which Churchill was killed in an accident prior to the war, causing Britain to fall to Germany, which in effect discourages the United States from ever entering the war, solidifying their stance as a neutral country. Eventually, however, the Nazis invade anyways.
141	* In ''Videogame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', the United States is mentioned as having surrendered to the Nazis. The sequel ''Videogame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' is focused on liberating America from the Nazis.
142	* ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict'': Set during an alternate 1980s, in which the USSR launched an invasion of the US instead of collapsing as in Real Life. The main battles of the war are occurring in Western Europe and the invasion force that lands in Seattle is just there to keep the USA from reinforcing its NATO allies. The backstory also explains that the Soviets previously attempted to invade New York, but the assault was repulsed[[note]]One level involves defeating said attempt, and shows that it was closer to a commando raid than an actual invasion attempt[[/note]]. No one expected an attack from the other direction.
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146	* In the AlternateHistory story ''Literature/TheFalconCannotHear'', the turning point in the SecondAmericanCivilWar comes when Japan invades the West Coast (controlled by the democratically socialist Provisional Government, or "Blue", faction). They do this in the belief that this will provide relief towards Japan's nominal ally, the fascist "White" faction, and also attract the support of the remaining warlords of the collapsed military junta (or "Khaki") faction. It all backfires horribly, as ''all'' the American factions are pissed at the violation of their sovereignty; the Whites face massive political instability due to their government's supposed allegiance with the invaders, while all the other factions [[EnemyMine band together]] to both repel the Japanese and defeat the Whites (who they blame for the invasion). [[spoiler: It also inspires Canada to declare itself NeutralNoLonger, and join TheAlliance.]]
147	* ''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.
148	* The ''WebVideo/Local58'' episode "Contingency" depicts the titular station accidentally airing a UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era newsreel that was prepared in case this fate befell the country, warning that the US has just fallen to an invading power (implied to be the Soviet Union) and urging that [[spoiler:the nation's citizens commit mass suicide, deeming it preferable to living under occupation]].
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152	* The first and probably most successful was executed by the Royal Marines of [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} the United Kingdom]] during the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812. Well, kind of -- the British were busy dealing with UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars at the time, and the Americans had already invaded and attempted to annex British Canada (in retaliation in part for the British forcibly conscripting American sailors into the Royal Navy), culminating in the razing of the city of York -- which we now know as UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. The British-Canadians responded with a series of raids along the border, an attempted takeover of UsefulNotes/NewOrleans, and an incursion into UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC where they burned down every government building except the Patent Office. And in the end, the result was a maintenance of the status quo. While the British were certainly sore about losing the American Revolution, Napoleon was the bigger issue; their only realistic territorial ambition was to establish a buffer state between Canada and the U.S., nominally run by the Native Americans.
153	* The second was by [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the secessionist Confederate States of America]], who had made a few incursions into states that hadn't seceded like Maryland (stopped at Antietam in 1862) and Pennsylvania (stopped at Gettysburg in 1863). General Robert E. Lee wasn't doing this to annex these regions to the Confederacy; rather, he figured that he needed a decisive victory in Union territory to convince them to sue for peace and recognize the Confederacy as independent. And he needed it quickly, before the Northern war machine could warm up and expose the South's weaknesses, which included a pretty useless federal government and a chronic food supply problem.[[note]]Southern plantation owners were so hung up on growing cotton that [[CripplingOverspecialization there wasn't enough fertile land set aside for food crops]] -- they relied on all that from the North.[[/note]] All this said, it barely counts as an "invasion" since it was a civil war, and some Southerners claim (with varying degrees of seriousness) that ''they'' were the ones who were invaded and that [[StillFightingTheCivilWar they live in occupied territory to this day]].
154	* The third and least significant was during UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution, when Pancho Villa led a raid on the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Despite [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack the longstanding desire in certain circles to reconquer former Mexican territory]], this is the only time anyone actually tried it. And it wasn't a serious ''reconquista''; it was basically a glorified supply run for Villa's shoestring army. The reason for the border incursion was to try to provoke a U.S. invasion of Mexico, which would give Villa a chance to organize a popular resistance against the leader Venustiano Carranza. Villa figured Carranza would either lose to the invaders or capitulate altogether (he was already accepting aid and arms shipments from the U.S.), and he would raise his own popular resistance army to beat the ''gringos'' and overthrow Carranza. The Americans ''did'' invade, but Carranza TookAThirdOption and actually did reasonably well in fending them off -- well enough to bolster his popular support.
155	* The last time anyone tried to invade U.S. territory was when UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan seized some of the Aleutian Islands in UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[note]]Whether this even counts as "the United States" is a matter of debate. At the time, Alaska was not a state, but rather an "incorporated territory", meaning that the U.S. Constitution applied there in full. This contrasts with an "unincorporated territory", which is more akin to a colony and where not all constitutional rights apply -- there's some form of self-governance there. U.S. law only considers incorporated territories as "part of the United States". Several unincorporated U.S. territories, like Guam and the Philippines, were also invaded by the Japanese, but because of this odd constitutional distinction they don't really "count". The best way to think of this is to think of an incorporated territory as a proto-state -- at the time, only Alaska and Hawaii were incorporated, both became states eventually, and all modern U.S. territories are unincorporated.[[/note]] It was actually designed as [[WeNeedADistraction a distraction]], drawing away the U.S. Navy while the Japanese could go for their real objective -- the U.S. Naval base at Midway. And even then, the plan wasn't to capture the base but to lure American aircraft carriers into a trap where they could be sunk. Admiral Yamamoto [[DidntThinkThisThrough pointed out]] that luring the carriers to the Aleutians meant they wouldn't be around at Midway to spring the trap, but he was [[ExecutiveMeddling overruled by the higher-ups]]. In any event, U.S. intelligence had cracked the Imperial Navy's ciphers and knew exactly what the plan was, so they allowed the Japanese to take a couple of islands and then reversed the trap on them at Midway, in what turned out to be a particularly decisive naval battle.
156	* Contrary to how most forms of media would depict such invasion attempts, successfully conquering the USA as it stands today would likely prove to be, while maybe not impossible, it would at least be extraordinarily difficult; 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.
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