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on July 19th 1917 the Topeka Dailey Capitol ran a story titled "Win the war with wheat." because Europe was running low on food supply so kansas came into the action and started selling wheat to make allies.
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this flu epidemic started in KS and spread really quickly
675,000 estimated people died because of the flu
if i dont know the exact date and i just know the year i will put
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After WWI Kansas became more industrial while the agriculture was descreasing in importance
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in southeastern kansas coal miners are in the mines and the mines collapse with them inside
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while WWII was going on Kansas was getting a lot of illegal alchohal because of prohibition which was also starting gangs that would bring more alchohal into Kansas
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while the dust bowl was happening agriculture was stopped by the gusts of wind and dust coming in
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when the dust bowl was over all of the farmers in kansas learned from their own mistakes and improved their farming methods
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for the second world war kansas started manufactoring fighting planes out of witchita
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Eisenhower wrote a note to all of the soldiers about to attack the beaches of Normandy. This inspired the soldiers which led to them winning the war
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when soldiers returned from the war they had found themselves without a job or home even though they had been brave and fought the Nazi Army