THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE DUST BOWL
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1932
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1933
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1934
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1930s, drought covered virtually the entire Plains for almost a decade (Warrick, 1980).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties, ” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Black Sunday Dust Storm of April 14, 1935.
Detailed explanation-4: -Black Sunday refers to a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935 as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.