It is absolutely impossible for me to teach a lesson about the Panama Canal without this awesome song going through my head. The band is Van Halen, the song "Panama."
Key things to remember about Panama:
- it was once part of Columbia
- the United States supported a takeover of the local government so they could get a favorable deal to dig the Panama Canal
- the digging of the canal cost 30,000 lives and $600 million
- the canal was dug through the Isthmus of Panama and connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
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