The Panama

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The Panama

• Canal

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The Importance...strategic, economic,
revolutionary
The Idea...
The Inspiration...Suez Canal (Egypt) 1854-1869
101
miles long
Ferdinand de Lessups the French began the
project in 1880.
The Comparison Panama 51 miles...1/2 the
time, right?
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WRONG!!!!
Rocks, jungles, mudslides, floods, high mortality
Tropical diseases...malaria and yellow fever
killed 20,000
The French spent 300,000,000 and several
years then abandoned the project
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Walter Reed / mosquitoes William Gorgas /
sanitation
1904
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Yellow Fever Quarantine Area
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Design Problems...
Elevation
Terrain
Engineers
George Goethals
Locks for 80 ft. lift
Huge Lake for Hydro-electric power to operate
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The Flooding of Miraflores Lock
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Cost to United States 375,000,000
Opened in 1914
Number of workers 40,000
U.S. controlled the canal zone until 1999
Why?
Good will, reputation of U.S. Panamanian
resentment
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Pay Car
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Workers 1910
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Pearl Harbor (WWII)
Capacity for huge aircraft carriers
Trip Time 51 miles in 9 hours
TOLL CHARGE varies by dimensions weight
Highest Princess Cruise Ship 141, 433
Lowest Richard Halliburton 1928 36 cents
Number of ships almost 1,000,000
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One of the Seven Modern Engineering
Wonders of the World
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Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
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The Channel Tunnel (Chunnel)
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The CN Tower Toronto, Canada
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Itaipu Dam Brazil / Paraguay
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North Sea Protection Works The
Netherlands
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The Empire State Building NYC
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The Monroe Doctrine
1823
President James Monroe other Presidents

• The U.S. would not get involved in affairs of
• European countries and will not take sides
• in wars among them

• America recognized existing colonies and states
• in the Western Hemisphere would not
• interfere with them

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• America would NOT permit further colonization
• in the Western Hemisphere

• America would view any attempt by a European
• power to control any nation in the Western
• Hemisphere as a hostile action

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The Roosevelt Corollary 1904

• President Theodore Roosevelt

• Speak softly and carry a big stick.

• an extension of the Monroe Doctrine

• The U.S. wanted only to see neighboring
• countries stable, orderly and prosperous.

• BUT if...

• The U.S. would be forced to exercise an
• international police power.