Operation Northwoods

(This is PollaxZekrom's first article here. Please do not make edits, but feel free to give suggestions!)

In 1962, a proposal was made to have the CIA and other government organizations to commit acts of terrorism in America, blaim it on Cuba, and use that to justify a war against Cuba.

That proposal was Operation Northwoods.

Of course, the Kennedy Administration put a stop to it. But what if they didn't? What if the USA commited acts of terrorism on itself and blaimed it on Cuba?

Would anyone ever find out?

Self-Terrorism
Operation Northwoods was set into motion. America committed real and simulated acts of terrorism, including killing Cuban émigrés, sinking boats with Cuban refugees, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and terrorizing U.S. cities.

This was all blamed on Cuba.

Cuba, of course, denied these claims, but no American believed Cuba anyway. After all, why trust a communist country? Aren't they the villains?

The press was getting fired up. The acts of terrorism made headlines on newspapers. Much of TV news's time was spent on the acts of terrorism and how tragic they were. And the American people were eating it up.

In fact, the American people ate a lot of things up. Propoganda films, calls to arrest any Cuban one sees, rumours spread by the government, you name it, they believed it.

Not a single person outside of the government (and conspiracy theorists no one believed) knew about Operation Northwoods.

The USA declared war on Cuba, hoping to drive communism out of the nation, and maybe, just maybe, get thier 51st state!

The War Begins
American forces immediatley went on Navy ships and started advancing in Cuban territory. Believing this war would be over quick, barely any soldiers stayed on American lands.

However, the U.S.S.R. secretly sent Cuba war supplies such as weapons, ammo, tanks, even soldiers! Because of this surplus, Cuba had some soldiers stay and defend Cuba while others went onto American soil.

In Cuba, American soldiers were making great progress. Already controlling 1/4 of Cuba, many people predicted the war would be over soon.

The Cuban soldiers in America, however, started to attack the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Hearing about this, the USA sent over half of its troops from Cuba to New Orleans. The half remaining on Cuba were killed by Cuban and U.S.S.R. soldiers, tanks and planes, who then advanced into America.

American Losses
The American troops came to New Orleans, where Cuban soldiers were seiging the city. The Battle of New Orleans had begun, but the American troops found themselves fighting double the army they had expected. They were not prepared for this, so they were crushed by the Cuban army. After losing half of their troops, while Cuba only lost 1/8, they retreated while reinfocements came.

The Cubans beat the American soldiers to the Rocky Mountains with their high-speed planes. The American soldiers were wiped out by the Cuban soldiers when they tried to climb the mountains.

After the planes dropped off Cuban soldiers, they kept a few and began advancing to Washington, D.C., bombing Oklahoma City, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Frankfort, and Charleston along the way. The American Air Force was notified of this, and found the Cuban planes just after bombing St. Louis. Even though their were more American planes, the Cubans won the battle when a few Cuban planes distracting the American planes as the rest of the Cuban planes got all the soldiers and continued to Washington, D.C., luring the American planes near the ground, and one dropping a nuke, engulfing all the American planes, as the rest of the Cuban planes retreated as fast as they could. Only half of those Cuban planes survived.

The surviving Cuban planes made it to Washington, D.C., where they promptly attacked important government buildings and several other places. While the American Air Force did come to stop the attack, there was little they could do. Washington, D.C was nearly wiped out. The Cuban planes shot down most of the American planes, which fell down and destroyed the remainder of Washington, D.C. The surviving American planes had to retereat, and Cuba won the battle and destroyed Washington, D.C.

Meanwhile, the Cuban soldiers in the south completely controlled Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and New Mexico by seiging their state capitals and controlled East New Mexico. They were also working on Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Some troops even went back to the Carribean to gain Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They did fight American troops, but because of the U.S.S.R. donating war supplies and troops, which they did again, it was nothing they couldn't handle.

Cuba controlled so much land they decided to make vassals out of it: The People's Cuban Republic of New Orleans (or just New Orleans) and The People's Cuban Republic of Puerto Virgo (or just Puerto Virgo) were declared with the capital of NEw Orleans being, of course, New Orleans and the capital of Puerto Virgo being San Juan. While the USA did not recognize either of their independence, most other countries did.

America was not doing good at all.

The Pentagon
The retreating Cuban planes made it to the Pentagon. One pilot figured that, since Cuba did not commit acts of terorrism on the USA, they might have done it themselves. He figured that the document detailing the supposed self-terrorism would be located in the Pentagon.

They dropped of the troops they had into the Pentagon to begin the attack. There was, of course, defense, but it was mainly shot down by the plane's missiles or the soldiers' guns.

A few soldiers found out where the document was located and retrieved it. They told the rest of the soldiers, who retreated into the planes, which flew away after completely destroying the Pentagon.

They had an important document, which they would release to the world.

The Truth
When the document for Operation Northwoods was revealed, the world was shocked. The Warsaw Pact (USSR, [[File:WWIII_Cuba_VS._America.png|thumb|(This map excludes New Orleans because I'm not good at making new countries on maps)

Blue- America| Light Blue- With America| Red-Cuba| Orange- With Cuba|]]Poland, East Germany, Checkoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania) actually joined the war against America with Cuba. NATO  (USA, Canada, Belgium, Denmark. France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, UK, Greece, Turkey and West Germany) decided to join in against Cuba with America after the Warsaw Pact joined. Already, this was turning out to be World War III.

WWIII
(COMING SOON)