How did the Cuban missile crisis reflect the political competition between the Soviet Union and the United States? The Soviet Union reinforced Cuba’s communist government after the United States invaded the island to dismantle Cuban missiles.

The Soviet Union publicly protested the United States missiles targeting Cuba, forcing their removal and keeping Cuba communist.

The United States initiated a United Nations resolution denouncing the sale of missiles by the Soviet Union to Cuban revolutionaries in an attempt to keep the Cuban government democratic.

The Soviet Union stationed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba in an attempt to gain some leverage over the United States.

a. competition between france and england for land and power

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.