Unfortunately (for the Germans), the Kaiser didn't reckon with Theodore Roosevelt. Navy, which America wouldn't need once it had no overseas territory. 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. The Kaiser's objective here is not to conquer the United States outright, but to force the U.S. Robert Conroy's Alternate History novel 1901 concerns a relatively limited invasion of the Northeast in the title year by the forces of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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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. Soviet army remnants show up on the path to Vegas.
The remake has North Korean invaders (originally Chinese, but changed in order to have it marketable there). Red Dawn (1984): 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.The Philadelphia Experiment II: David Herdeg is sent to an Alternate History where the Nazis won World War II and occupied the U.S.(1952) and to a lesser extent Invasion U.S.A. 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. Discussed in Pearl Harbor during Roosevelt's first meeting with his advisers after the namesake attack.He mentions the film Red Dawn (1984), which he owns a poster of in his room. 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. In Escape from L.A., a united, Shining Path-led Latin America is on the verge of invading the US.Parodied in Canadian Bacon: three random schlubs thinks that the US is being invaded by Canada.Goes hand-in-hand with Occupiers Out of Our Country, Fallen States of America and Day of the Jackboot. Divided States of America 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. See also Mexico Called They Want Texas Back and Russia Called They Want Alaska Back for more specific examples of this trope. 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. It's also rare for the actual logistics of such an invasion to even be described, because it's hard to do so realistically. 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.
If done right, can make for an interesting plot. 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). 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 new technology and/or magic - or by the governments simply going "better to try reclaiming what's ours than doom the whole world". settings will usually be very similar to the Twenty Minutes setting, usually featuring a Russian or Chinese invasion. 1812) Power that would genuinely be threatened by an invasion from a rival power. 20 Minutes into the Future will sometimes depict a (dystopian) USA that is no longer a Super-Power but merely a Great (e.g. If it is set pre-1990, it is usually a Cold War that got hot or some other form of Alternate History, such as Nazi Germany and/or Imperial Japan carving an isolationist America up once they've finished conquering the rest of the world. The background of the invasion usually varies on when the work is set. The work will usually focus on the heroic efforts of either or both the US Armed Forces and the La RĂ©sistance as they try to defend their homeland. A plot device that depicts the United States as a target of foreign occupation by another (nation-)state or states.