Dust Bowl Of The 1930s

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Dust bowl of the 1930s. This video gives brief history as to why the Dust Bowl of the 1930s happened and how it affected the people living in the area. The Dust Bowl of The 1930s. Farmer in Kansas during the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s attempts to work formerly fertile land buried in dust.

The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world. Although it technically refers to the western third of Kansas southeastern Colorado the Oklahoma Panhandle the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico the Dust Bowl has come to symbolize the hardships of the entire nation during the 1930s. Eight long years of drought preceded by inappropriate cultivation technique and the financial crises of the Great Depression forced many farmers off the land abandoning their fields throughout the Great Plains that run across the heart of mainland United.

The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. Unlike the dust storms that form in Arizona or New Mexico that last only a few hours. The Dust Bowl affected the U.

Technically the driest region of the Plains southeastern Colorado southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas became known as the Dust Bowl and many dust storms started there. Once a semi-arid grassland the treeless plains became home to thousands of settlers when in 1862. But the entire region and eventually the entire country was affected.

Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states almost all to the West. Between 1930 and 1940 the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought. The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday April 14 1935.

The effects of the Dust Bowl drought devastated the United States central states region known as the Great Plains or High Plains. The drought affected almost two-thirds of the country and parts of Mexico and Canada and was infamous for the numerous dust storms that occurred in the southern Great Plains. Abnormal sea surface temperatures SST in the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean played a strong role in the 1930s dust bowl drought.