In the United States public opinin is dominated by the anti-war activities of the Honorable Plato Barker and Reverend A. Cuthbert Pike. A ruthless millionaire, obsessed with the desire for power, secretly plots the invasion of the United States. A "European Confederated Army," headed by the Germans, lands on American shores and conquers the major cities. All attemps to appease the invading army the Reverend Pike greets them with kindness but is hilariously humiliated. The invaders commit a variety of atrocities on the upon the citizens, such as rounding up and executing such "undesirables" as aged Civil War veterans and innocent children, and torturing American women. Democracy and the American Way are saved by a courageous pro-war congressman, who in concert with a patriotic suffragette (who'd been a pacifist in the early portions of the film) raises a civilian army to vanquish the usurpers.