The Great Depression and Dust Bowl By Autumn_Sweetwood2021 1929 Stock Market Crashes Period: 1929 to 1939 The Great Depression 1930 Major Drought hits the Midwest and Southern Great Plains https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl#section_4 Period: 1930 to 1939 Okie Migration 2.5 Million people left the dust storm states- Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl#section_4 1931 Major Dust Storms Start 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt Becomes President 1933 Thousands of Banks Shut Down May 11, 1934 Black Blizzard hits East Coast A black blizzard is a makor dust storm 1935 Soil Erosion Service and Prairie States Forestry Establish Apr 14, 1935 Worst Dust Storm hits https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl#section_4
