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  2. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most ...

  3. 1934–35 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    There were also dust storms in 1934 and 1935 in the southern Great Plains, the Midwest, Great Lakes States and even the East Coast of the U.S. [3] Many studies indicate that the drought spells might have been caused when tractors and farm machinery were introduced the previous decade. [2]

  4. 1988–1990 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    At its peak, the drought covered 45% of the United States. That was far less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States, but the drought of 1988–1990 not only ranks as the costliest drought in United States history, it was one of the costliest natural disasters in United States history.

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  6. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This further lead to the vicious cycle of reduced evaporation and decreased rainfall all through the spring of 2012. While the summer of 2011 was the second-warmest (74.5 °F (23.6 °C)) in U.S. history after the Dust Bowl era of 1936 74.6 °F (23.7 °C) the summer of 2012 was the third-warmest at (74.4 °F (23.6 °C)).

  7. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    Black Sunday is a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. [1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. [2] It is estimated that 300 thousand tons of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area. [3]

  8. Great Plains Shelterbelt - Wikipedia

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    The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. [1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion.

  9. 1934 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl. May 15 The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger. Nantucket Lightship LV-117 sinks after colliding with RMS Olympic.