1930s: The Dustbowl Period, USA

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Years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl, the name given to the parched Southern Plains region in the 1930s. During the drought there were many dramatic dust storms, referred to as “black blizzards”, which were caused by high winds stirring the dusty topsoil throughout Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The worst storm happened on 14 April 1935, when severe dust storms spread east from the Oklahoma Panhandle. It was coined Black Sunday. 

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1930s: The Dustbowl Period, USA Years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl, the name given to the parched Southern Plains region in the 1930s. During the drought there were many dramatic dust storms, referred to as “black blizzards”, which were caused by high winds stirring the dusty topsoil throughout Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The worst storm happened on 14 April 1935, when severe dust storms spread east from the Oklahoma Panhandle. It was coined Black Sunday.