Which country controlled the panama canal until 1999

The United States controlled the Panama Canal until 1999. Theodore Roosevelt purchased the land and the rights to control the canal when construction began in 1903.

United states of America

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

soviet influence spread across eastern europe sharply during and after wwii. the soviet armies liberated the countries in eastern europe and occupied them from the germans as they were forced to retreat towards germany.