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Red Dawn is a 1984 film by John Milius about an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the resulting guerrilla actions of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado. The movie features Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and Powers Boothe. Red dawn may refer to: Red Dawn (X-Men episode), an episode from second season of X-Men animated series. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 381 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (455 Ã— 716 pixel, file size: 95 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. ... John Milius (born April 11, 1944 in St. ... John Milius (born April 11, 1944 in St. ... Kevin Reynolds refers to: Kevin Reynolds (director) Kevin Reynolds (figure skater) Category: ... Patrick Bendover Swayze (born August 18, 1952), is an American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born September 3, 1965 as Carlos Irwin EstÃ©vez ) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... Lea Thompson in Back to the Future. ... Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926 in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA) is an American actor. ... Powers Allen Boothe (born June 1, 1948) is an American television and film actor. ... Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress, best known for playing Frances Baby Houseman in the 1987 hit film, Dirty Dancing. ... Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor. ... Basil Poledouris (Greek: Î’Î±ÏƒÎ¯Î»Î·Ï‚ Î Î¿Î»ÎµÎ´Î¿ÏÏÎ·Ï‚) (August 21, 1945 - November 8, 2006) was an American film composer. ... Thom Noble is an Academy Award winning film editor. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the year. ... John Milius (born April 11, 1944 in St. ... â€œGuerrillaâ€ redirects here. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... Calumet, Colorado is a ghost town located in Huerfano County, Colorado, located to the northwest of Walsenburg. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area Ranked 8th - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 kmÂ²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ... Patrick Bendover Swayze (born August 18, 1952), is an American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter. ... Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor. ... Lea Thompson in Back to the Future. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born September 3, 1965 as Carlos Irwin EstÃ©vez ) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress, best known for playing Frances Baby Houseman in the 1987 hit film, Dirty Dancing. ... Powers Allen Boothe (born June 1, 1948) is an American television and film actor. ...

Produced in the last decade of the Cold War, Red Dawn has become something of a cult classic and has become a touchstone of 1980s pop culture.^{[citation needed]} Red Dawn was the first movie to be released with a Motion Picture Association of America PG-13 rating (The Flamingo Kid was the first film to actually receive the rating, but was not released for 5 months after certification.) For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ... The Flamingo Kid was the first movie to receive a PG-13 rating, although it was released after Red Dawn. ...

Plot summary

The plot of the movie is based on an idea that an unprepared United States stood alone and was then invaded by the Soviet Union and their allies in the then-upcoming 1988, igniting World War III. The larger war is ignored, following the lives of a group of young people who become guerrillas resisting the resulting occupation. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... A nuclear holocaust is often associated with World War III For other uses, see World War III (disambiguation). ... â€œGuerrillaâ€ redirects here. ... Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory belonging to a state passes to a hostile army. ...

In the small Colorado town of Calumet, a normal fall morning is interrupted by an airdrop of Soviet paratroopers into the town. Following an attack on the local high school, a small group of teenagers arm themselves with hunting weapons and flees to the nearby mountains in order to escape the Soviets. They begin a resistance against the Soviet-allied occupation force. The group calls themselves the Wolverines after their school’s team/mascot and proceed to attack the occupying forces using ambushes, sniper attacks, booby traps, guerrilla-style bombings in the town itself on Soviet positions, and raids on the occupiers' supply depots and convoys. A C-130 Hercules airdropping a light tank. ... An American Paratrooper using a T-10C series parachute Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and formed into an airborne force. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country or the government of a sovereign nation through either the use of physical force, or nonviolence. ... For the River in the North-East of England, see River Team. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... An ambush is a long established military tactic in which an ambushing force uses concealment to attack an enemy that passes its position. ... For other uses, see Sniper (disambiguation). ... This article is about an antipersonnel trap designed for use against humans. ...

Over time, the Wolverines are joined by a downed Air Force fighter pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Tanner, who instructs them in more formal military tactics. The Wolverines later liberate a "political prisoner camp" where the occupation force has rounded up citizens whom they thought might offer resistance to their occupation. For a particular Air Force, see List of air forces. ... A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. ... Prisoner of War camps Contents // Categories: Substubs | Prisons and detention centres ...

Eventually, they make a disastrous foray to the front lines of the war in a Rocky Mountain pass where M1 Abrams and T-72's are engaging each other, resulting in the premature death of Tanner and Arturo, known as "Aardvark". For individual mountains named Rocky Mountain, see Rocky Mountain (disambiguation). ... The M1 Abrams main battle tank is the principal combat tank of the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps and the Australian Army, with three main versions being deployed starting in 1980: the M1, M1A1, and M1A2. ... The T-72 is a Soviet-designed main battle tank that entered production in 1971. ...

As the result of continuing guerrilla attacks the Soviet field commanders now view the Wolverines as a serious threat. Initially the occupiers had tried terror tactics, executing groups of civilians following every Wolverine attack, in order to intimidate the local population and the Wolverines into halting their attacks. However, this tactic backfired resulting in the civilians lending increasing support to the Resistance. Following a rise in popular support for the Wolverines, Strelnikov, a Soviet counterinsurgency specialist, arrives to declare that there will be no more reprisals against civilians. Instead the specialist sends commandos into the mountains in order to eliminate the Wolverines. This new strategy fails when the commandos are ambushed and killed by the Wolverines in only mere seconds. Counter-insurgency is the combatting of insurgency, by the government (or allies) of the territory in which the insurgency takes place. ... Promotional artwork for the Commandos series. ...

Following the ambush on the commandos the group finds a tracking device among the dead soldiers. Daryl, the son of the collaborating mayor of the town, admits that the Soviets had forced him to swallow a signal emitter, explaining that he only did it as a result of coercion. Jed shoots the sole Russian survivor of the commando squad but is unable to bring himself to kill his friend. Robert shoots Daryl in cold blood, prompting the group to realize that there is no way to avoid war, as it is inevitable. The Wolverines break camp out of fear of additional raids by the Soviets. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Collaborationism, as a pejorative term, can describe the treason of cooperating with enemy forces occupying ones country. ...

Things become increasingly hard for the Wolverines; their morale has eroded as the war of attrition takes its toll on their numbers. The Soviet occupation forces are pushing them to the breaking point, although thanks to the Wolverines, the Soviet hopes for keeping the civilian population shocked into complacency and unable to fight back have all but collapsed. For other uses, see War of Attrition (disambiguation). ...

The remaining Wolverines are then ambushed while eating food from crates dropped from a passing Soviet convoy they had intended to attack. Several heavily armed Mil Mi-24 gunships appear and attack the Wolverines, and though Robert is able to disable one with an RPG-7, they suffer severe and demoralizing losses. Robert chose to die in a hail of gunfire. Toni was mortally wounded and asks Jed to leave her behind. Keeping a hand grenade as the others retreated, she kills a Russian soldier and herself. The Mil Mi-24 (NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and low-capacity troop transport produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and operated from 1976 by the Soviet Air Force, its successors, and over thirty other nations. ... An RPG-7 captured by the United States Army. ...

The Wolverines are down to four; Jed, his brother Matt, Danny and Erica. Jed and Matt realize that they can't outlast the Soviets and if they keep fighting they will all die. Matt tells Danny and Erica to head for "Free America," insisting that some of their number must survive. The two brothers, meanwhile, stage a diversionary attack on the Soviet headquarters in town so that Danny and Erica can escape. Jed and his brother are both shot and mortally wounded by Strelnikov, although Jed manages to shoot and kill him as well. Jed staggers away as he carries his brother in his arms. Bella, the Cuban colonel who has commanded the occupation forces from the date of the invasion, has the chance to shoot the two brothers, but decides to let them go. Bella, a former guerrilla himself, had been composing a letter to his wife just minutes before the attack, telling her he was planning on handing in his resignation. Jed staggers away with his brother to a park bench to wait out his final moments. Meanwhile, Danny and Erica successfully escape into "Free American" territory.

The film’s epilogue suggests that the United States won the war several years later; a plaque is displayed with "Partisan Rock" in the background, which pays tribute to the Wolverines killed in action, and reveals that the events in the film occurred during the "early days of World War III." This memorial in England lists the names of soldiers who died in the First World War. ... Look up partisan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Temporary grave of an American machine-gunner during the Battle of Normandy. ... A nuclear holocaust is often associated with World War III For other uses, see World War III (disambiguation). ...

Backstory

Much of the progress and politics of the war is left to the viewers’ speculation in the film’s first half (putting the audience in the position of the characters, who also have no idea what is going on beyond their immediate surroundings), but specific facts are later provided by a downed U.S. Air Force pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Tanner. â€œThe U.S. Air Forceâ€ redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with aerial warfare. ... In the U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a commissioned officer superior to a major and inferior to a colonel. ...

Director/screenwriter John Milius reported that he had obtained the help and input of former Secretary of State and NATO commander General Alexander Haig to create the backstory/scenario, which required an invasion of the US by communist countries with minimal use of nuclear weapons on both sides. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1400x628, 48 KB) Summary Map of fictional events in 1984 movie Red Dawn, at the start of World War III Blue = US and allies (England, China 600 million screaming Chinamen, presumably Canada) Green = Neutral (Europe, theyre sitting this one out) Red... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1400x628, 48 KB) Summary Map of fictional events in 1984 movie Red Dawn, at the start of World War III Blue = US and allies (England, China 600 million screaming Chinamen, presumably Canada) Green = Neutral (Europe, theyre sitting this one out) Red... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... This article is about the military alliance. ... For other persons named Alexander Haig, see Alexander Haig (disambiguation). ...

The film’s backstory involves several alternate history political precedents. The Green Party came to power in West Germany, forcing the removal of U.S. forces from that nation and all nuclear weapons from Europe. The resulting upheaval left NATO as a political nonentity, with only Britain remaining as a U.S. ally. At the same time, Soviet allies Cuba and Nicaragua, each expanded their armies to 500,000 men, subsequently overrunning El Salvador and Honduras. A civil war in Mexico resulted in that country falling behind the Communist "Iron Curtain." In a parallel to Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union, like Nazi Germany, now had a broad base from which to invade its primary enemy, and thousands of troops from satellite nations to augment their own armies. Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Alliance 90/The Greens (BÃ¼ndnis 90/Die GrÃ¼nen), the German Green party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on April 4, 1949. ... A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Warsaw Pact countries to the east of the Iron Curtain are shaded red; NATO members to the west of it â€” blue. ... Combatants Germany Romania Finland Italy Hungary Slovakia Soviet Union Commanders Adolf Hitler Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Fedor von Bock Gerd von Rundstedt Heinz Guderian GÃ¼nther von Kluge Franz Halder Maresal Ion Antonescu C.G.E. Mannerheim Giovanni Messe, CSIR Italo Garibaldi, ARMIR Joseph Stalin Kliment Voroshilov Semyon Timoshenko Fyodor... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... A satellite nation is a country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation. ...

During this time, the Soviet Union was suffering its worst wheat harvest in 55 years and food riots were occurring throughout the Warsaw Pact. Apparently desperate for food to feed its people, the Soviet Union and its allies launched a full scale invasion of the United States. Although the movie was released in 1984, the story itself takes place in the near future, probably 1988 or 1989, because the Holodomor of 1932-1934 is probably what is being referred to as the previous "worst wheat harvest" that happened 55 years beforehand. Not to be confused with the Warsaw Convention, which is an agreement about airlines financial liability and the Treaty of Warsaw (1970) between West Germany and the Peoples Republic of Poland. ... Child victim of the Holodomor The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Ð“Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾Ñ€), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in modern history with direct loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary). ...

The Soviets utilize a three-phase attack. First, they use strategic nuclear strikes to destroy key points of communication including several major U.S. cities (Omaha, Kansas City and Washington, D.C. are specifically cited). Strategic nuclear weapons are also used to destroy ICBM bases in Montana and the Dakotas. In addition, it is hinted that Cuban infiltrators aid in confusing U.S. forces by raiding Strategic Air Command bases throughout the Midwest and Texas. Coupled with these nuclear attacks, Soviet transport aircraft containing elite Soviet VDV and Cuban paratroopers slipped through the U.S. radar disguised as commercial airliners. A strategic nuclear weapon refers to a nuclear weapon which is designed to be used on targets as part of a strategic plan, such as nuclear missile locations, military command centers and large cities. ... â€œOmahaâ€ redirects here. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... A Minuteman III ICBM test launch from Vandenberg AFB, California, United States. ... For the film of the same name, see Strategic Air Command (film) The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of Americas bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. ... VDV flag. ... An American Paratrooper using a T-10C series parachute Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and formed into an airborne force. ...

The second phase saw Mexican and other Communist armies (with small contingents of Soviet forces) pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border into the Great Plains of the United States. The third phase involved a Soviet invasion of Alaska across the Bering Strait from Siberia. They crossed into Canada occupying the Yukon, British Columbia and Western Alberta, most likely including Calgary, and cut the Alaskan Pipeline, but were decisively stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border by U.S. forces. The international border between Mexico and the United States runs a total of 3,141 km (1,951 miles) from San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east. ... The Great Plains covers much of the central United States, portions of Canada and Mexico. ... Official language(s) None[1] Spoken language(s) English 85. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Photo across the Bering Strait Nautical chart of the Bering Strait The Bering Strait (Russian: ) is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169Â°43 W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168Â°05... This article is about Siberia as a whole. ... This article is about Yukon Territory in Canada. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour Without Sunset (diminishment)) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 5th - Total 944,735... Motto: Fortis et liber(Latin) Strong and free Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Official languages English (see below) Government - Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong - Premier Ed Stelmach (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 28 - Senate seats 6 Confederation September 1, 1905 (split from Northwest Territories) (8th [Province]) Area Ranked... This article is about the Canadian city. ... Map of the pipeline The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), usually called the Alyeska Pipeline in Alaska or the Alaska Pipeline elsewhere, is a major U.S. oil pipeline connecting oil fields in northern Alaska to a sea port where the oil can be shipped to the Lower 48 states... The Peace Arch border Canada and the United States of America share the longest common border, officially known as the International Boundary, between any two countries that is not militarized or actively patrolled. ...

Elsewhere, Britain remained loyal to her American allies, but suffered heavily for it, Tanner's remark that the UK will not last long suggests that without support from mainland Europe and the US the Red Banner Northern Fleet had defeated the Royal Navy and cut off the British Isles. China also declared war upon the Soviet Union; the reason for this is unexplained, though there was some long-standing animosity between the two powers resulting from the Sino-Soviet split. Colonel Tanner refers to there being some "600 million screaming Chinamen" on the American side. When asked "I thought there were a billion screaming Chinamen?", he cryptically replies "There were", strongly suggesting China had suffered Soviet nuclear strikes. In the film, the effects of the nuclear weapons are not shown because the location (northern Colorado) is far from any contaminated sites. Red Banner Northern Fleet (Северный флот in Russian, or Severniy flot), a part of the Soviet Navy, created in 1933 for the purpose of defending Soviet territory beyond the Arctic circle (Заполярь&#1077... This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... The Sino-Soviet split was a major diplomatic conflict between the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), beginning in the late 1950s, reaching a peak in 1969 and continuing in various ways until the late 1980s. ... Chinaman may refer to: Chinaman (racial term), a term used to refer to a Chinese man. ... In nuclear strategy, first strike capability is a countrys ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area Ranked 8th - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 kmÂ²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ...

The Communist forces manage to occupy and control a large chunk of the central United States, extending as far west as the Rocky Mountains, and north to Cheyenne, Wyoming across Kansas to the Mississippi River in the east. Denver is also under siege. Nickname: Location in Wyoming Coordinates: , County Laramie County Founded 1867 Government - Mayor Jack R. Spiker Area - City 57. ... Official language(s) English[2] Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area Ranked 15th - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 kmÂ²) - Width 211 miles (340 km) - Length 417 miles (645 km) - % water 0. ... This article refers to the state capital of Colorado. ...

Once the lines are stabilized, it quickly becomes a conventional war with both sides ceasing their use of nuclear weapons. Colonel Tanner explains that the Soviets are reluctant to use any more nuclear weapons, as they want to conquer the United States, not destroy it utterly, and the U.S. government is unwilling to use tactical nuclear weapons on or over their own soil against the invading armies. The Soviets work through American collaborators at the local level to help them maintain order. Conventional warfare means a form of warfare conducted by using conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more nation-states in open confrontation. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ...

Cast of Characters

Patrick Bendover Swayze (born August 18, 1952), is an American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born September 3, 1965 as Carlos Irwin EstÃ©vez ) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926 in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA) is an American actor. ... Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor. ... Lea Thompson in Back to the Future. ... Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress, best known for playing Frances Baby Houseman in the 1987 hit film, Dirty Dancing. ... There have been several people called Ben Johnson or Jonson: Ben Jonson (1572-1637; Elizabethan dramatist, poet & actor) Ben Johnson (c. ... Darren Dalton is an actor. ... Powers Allen Boothe (born June 1, 1948) is an American television and film actor. ... Ron ONeal (September 1, 1937 in Utica, New York, USA â€“ January 14, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA â€” of pancreatic cancer) was an American actor, director and screenwriter. ... Vladek Sheybal (born 12 March 1923 in Zgierz, Poland, died 16 October 1992 in London, England) is an actor. ... William Smith (born March 24, 1934 in Columbia, Missouri, USA) is an American actor. ... Frank McRae (born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 3, 1942) is an American actor and former professional football player. ... Actor Roy Jenson was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1935 and is known for various roles in several films and TV episodes. ... Pepe Serna (born July 23, 1944- ) is an American film actor and artist. ... Lane Smith, full name Walter Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 â€“ June 13, 2005) was a U.S. character actor. ... Sam Slovick (raised in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A.. Born on June 23, 1958. ... Rad Pera (born Radames Pera 14 September 1960 in New York, New York, USA) is an actor who starred in many TV shows. ... Fred Rexer, a. ... George Fisher may refer to: George Fisher, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York in the 1820s. ... Scott Phillips (born February 22, 1973 in Madison, Florida) is the drummer of Alter Bridge and is the former drummer of Creed. ...

Themes

Red Dawn also depicts collaboration, portraying the local mayor as an opportunist who gains or maintains power by collaborating with the occupational forces. Actor Lane Smith plays the role of the “Vichyite” mayor who tries to appease the occupational authorities. He watches as several of the residents of his town are executed as insurgents and later gives up his own son (who is later executed by the Wolverines as a result) to the KGB to win more favor. Image File history File links RedDawn(McDonalds). ... Image File history File links RedDawn(McDonalds). ... Collaborationism, as a pejorative term, can describe the treason of cooperating with enemy forces occupying ones country. ... Lane Smith, full name Walter Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 â€“ June 13, 2005) was a U.S. character actor. ... Motto Travail, famille, patrie French: Unoccupied zone of Vichy France (until November 1942) Capital Vichy Capital-in-exile Sigmaringen (1944-1945) Language(s) French Religion Roman Catholic Government Dictatorship Chief of state - 1940 â€” 1944 Philippe PÃ©tain President of the Council - 1940 â€” 1942 Philippe PÃ©tain - 1942 â€” 1944 Pierre Laval... This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ...

Director Jon Milius, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment ^{[citation needed]} portrays the private ownership of weapons as a necessary element of anti-Communism ^{[citation needed]}. Early in the film, a bumper sticker seen on a truck states a classic gun owner’s creed; “They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.” The shot moves down to a dead hand holding an empty Colt pistol as well as shots of the same pistol being pried from the dead person's hand by a Soviet paratrooper. As the protagonists flee the initial invasion of Calumet, they stop at a local sporting goods store owned by one of their fathers. He tells them to gather supplies and gives them several rifles and pistols along with boxes of ammunition. (The father and his wife are later executed because of the guns missing from the store’s inventory.) In a later scene, a Cuban officer orders one of his men to report to the local sporting goods store and obtain the paperwork of local citizens who own firearms. The Cuban officer specifically refers to Form 4473, which is the actual form used to record the sale of a firearm by a dealer to a private citizen in the United States. These scenes speak to the long-standing issues of government gun control. Nonetheless, it is often overlooked that the Wolverines make almost exclusive use of captured Soviet arms from their first engagement onwards, possibly due to limited stocks of ammunition for their own civilian weapons (revolvers, pump-action shotguns, lever-action rifles and bolt-action rifles) or the greater effectiveness of the captured military weapons (such as the AKM, RPD and RPG-7). Pro-communism refers to opposition to baby eating. ... The M1911 is a single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the . ... â€œCCCPâ€ redirects here. ... Federal Form 4473 is a US government form that must be filled out when a person buys a firearm from a Federal Firearm License Holder or gunshop. ... â€œGun licenseâ€ redirects here. ... Gun Politics, the political aspects of gun control and firearms rights, has long been among the most controversial and intractable issues in American politics. ... Revolver is also a rock-and-roll album by The Beatles. ... A pump-action rifle or shotgun is one in which the fore-end of the stock can be pumped back and forth in order to eject and chamber a round of ammunition. ... Remington pump-action shotgun held by a Florida Highway Patrol cadet shotgun, see: Shotgun (disambiguation). ... A lever-action is a type of firearm which uses a lever located around the trigger guard area (often including the trigger guard itself) to load fresh cartridges into the chamber of the barrel when the lever is cranked. The most famous of such lever-action firearms are the Martini... A bolt-action firearm is one that is manually operated (i. ... Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947 g. ... The RPD is a belt-fed machine gun formerly manufactured in the Soviet Union and in China. ... An RPG-7 captured by the United States Army. ...

Although most of the high school insurgents are killed, a voice-over appears at the end of the movie by Erica (Lea Thompson), (one of the two survivors) showing a World War III memorial. The American flag flying above it implies the United States had—eventually—won the war. It was not part of the original script, but was added to soften its otherwise grim and defeatist ending ^{[citation needed]}. Lea Thompson in Back to the Future. ... Union Jack. ...

Development

The script for Red Dawn was written by John Milius and Kevin Reynolds (director of Waterworld) from a story by Reynolds. The original screenplay, called Ten Soldiers, was more akin to Lord of the Flies, the classic novel (and later a film) about the aggressive nature of man, than to the action film it eventually became. Some of the changes made to Ten Soldiers included a shift in focus from the conflict within the group of teens to the conflict between the teens and their oppressors, and the acceleration of the ages of some of the characters from early teens to high school age and beyond. John Milius was inspired to a degree by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, basing the tactics of the "Wolverines" off those of the mujahideen in fighting the occupying Russian army.^{[citation needed]} Kevin Reynolds (born January 17, 1952), is a film director and writer. ... This article is about the 1995 sci-fi film. ... Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. ... A Soviet soldier on guard in Afghanistan in 1988. ... Mujahideen (Arabic: , ; Turkish: , literally strugglers) is a term for Muslims fighting in a war or involved in any other struggle. ...

Red Dawn’s story and conception are similar to John Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down, which is a story about a town occupied by a foreign army. The book, which was published during the height of World War II, was widely circulated in underground Europe and extremely popular as propaganda because the people of occupied Europe believed it spoke directly to them in a realistic way. Unlike Red Dawn, The Moon Is Down is purposely vague and does not name the location of the town or the nationality of the invaders, but it did not start out that way. In the book’s early form, the town was in America and the invaders were Nazis. Steinbeck met much resistance for this version of the story from his colleagues because it seemed to be defeatist, and so Steinbeck stripped all national references from the book. John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 â€“ December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. ... This article is about the novel. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

The movie was filmed in and around the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Many of the buildings and structures which appeared in the film, including a historic Fred Harvey Company hotel adjacent to the train depot, the Las Vegas train yard, and a building near downtown which was repainted with the name of “Calumet, Colorado” where the movie was set, are still there today as they appeared in the film. The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas. ... The origin of the Fred Harvey Company can be traced to the 1875 opening of two railroad eating houses located at Wallace, Kansas and Hugo, Colorado on the Kansas Pacific Railway. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ...

Before filming began, production crews designed and built special combat vehicles in Newhall, California. Among their “fleet” were 15 Soviet armored vehicles (including a ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” mobile antiaircraft gun, several T-72 main battle tanks, and various BMP and BTR armored personnel carriers—all surprisingly authentic and detailed), several Yak-38 “Forger” vertical take-off and landing Soviet Naval aircraft (the Soviet Navy flag is clearly visible on the side of the air intake), and three Mi-24 “Hind-A” helicopter gunships (improvised from Aérospatiale Pumas). The movie’s Soviet T-72 tank was such a precise replica that “while it was being carted around Los Angeles, two CIA officers followed it to the studio and wanted to know where it had come from.”^[1] The ZSU-23-4 Shilka is a lightly armoured, self-propelled, radar guided anti-aircraft weapon system (SPAAG). ... American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft, or air defense, is any method of combating military aircraft from the ground. ... The T-72 is a Soviet-designed main battle tank that entered production in 1971. ... The US M1A1 Abrams tank is a typical modern main battle tank. ... The BMP-1 is a Soviet infantry fighting vehicle which was first introduced in the early 1960s. ... BTR may mean: BTR abrv. ... East German BRDMs on parade during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of East Germany in 1989 Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are light armoured fighting vehicles for the transport of infantry. ... The Yakovlev Yak-38 (NATO reporting name: Forger) was Soviet Naval Aviations first and only operational VTOL multi-role combat aircraft. ... The Hawker Harrier, one of the famous examples of a plane with VTOL capability. ... The Soviet Navy (Russian: Ð’Ð¾ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾-Ð¼Ð¾Ñ€ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ñ„Ð»Ð¾Ñ‚ Ð¡Ð¡Ð¡Ð , Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR, literally Naval military forces of the USSR) was the naval arm of the Soviet armed forces. ... The Mil Mi-24 (NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and low-capacity troop transport produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and operated from 1976 by the Soviet Air Force, its successors, and over thirty other nations. ... The Aerospatiale Puma is a medium-sized twin-engined transport/utility helicopter originally manufactured by Aerospatiale of France. ... â€œCIAâ€ redirects here. ... An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organisation to collect, compile and analyse information (known as intelligence) which is of use to that organisation. ...

Five of the 36 parachutists who took part in the invasion scene early in the film were injured when high winds blew them as far as one mile off target. Parachutist Jim Fisher, wearing a Soviet paratrooper uniform, landed in a tree and found himself calling out to local rescuers: “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot! I am not a Russian soldier!”

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The original tagline for the movie was “No foreign army has ever occupied American soil.” This had to be changed because it was factually inaccurate. The British Army captured Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812 and set fire to the White House and other buildings. In 1916 Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa attacked and looted the town of Columbus, New Mexico killing 19 Americans before being driven off by the US Army. In 1942, the Japanese seized the islands of Attu, Kiska, and Agattu in Alaska’s Aleutian chain. At the time, Alaska was not a U.S. state, but it was a territory, so it was still U.S. “soil.” The United States recaptured the islands the following year. Japan also conquered Guam, Wake Island, and the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the course of WWII, though they were later recaptured as well.^[2] The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Battle of Bladensburg was a battle fought during the War of 1812. ... This article is about the U.S. â€“ U.K. war. ... Combatants Great Britain United States Commanders Robert Ross George Cockburn Unknown Strength 4,250 Unknown The Burning of Washington is the name given to the razing of Washington, D.C., by British forces during the War of 1812. ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... Combatants United States, Canada Empire of Japan Commanders Thomas C. Kinkaid (navy), Francis W. Rockwell (landings), Albert E. Brown (army), Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. ... Attu Island Attu is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, making it the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska and the United States. ... Map of Kiska Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska located at 52. ... Agattu is one of the islands in the Aleutians. ... Official language(s) None[1] Spoken language(s) English 85. ... Aleutians seen from space The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, island) are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 kmÂ²) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas US Government Portal A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of... Anthem Lupang Hinirang Location of the Philippines in Asia Capital Manila Â¹ Language(s) Pilipino, English, Spanish Government Republic President - 1935-1944 Manuel L. Quezon - 1944-1946 Sergio OsmeÃ±a - 1946 Manuel Roxas Vice President - 1935-1944 Sergio OsmeÃ±a - 1946 Elpidio Quirino Historical era American colonization - Philippine Independence Act March...

Trivia

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Cultural references

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Plot summary

Backstory

Cast of Characters

Themes

Development

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Trivia

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