Even though the Panama Canal is considered to be one of the most prominent engineering marvels of the world, it is literally built on many losses. During building the Canal more than 25,000 people died, mostly because of disease. Over 20,000 people died when the French set a hope to build the canal, and 5,000 died when the Americans did it successfully. It is a really huge sacrifice.
Europeans desired a direct sea route to Asia, because the land trade routes were expensive and dangerous
The government created this video to give a more in-depth point of view of what happened in Pearl Harbor
