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  2. Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union

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    The Golubev and Dronin report gives the following table of the major droughts in Russia between 1900 and 2000. [1]: 16 Mass famines were reported in years of drought in the 1920s and 1930s, and the last one occurred in 1984. [1]: 23 Central: 1920, 1924, 1936, 1946, 1984. Southern: 1901, 1906, 1921, 1939, 1948, 1995. Eastern: 1911, 1931.

  3. 1934–35 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    According to numerous studies, the 1934–35 droughts and heat might have certainly been the worst such events in the 20th century at that particular time. [4] Several states, however, were worse affected when the 1936 North American heat waves and drought spells developed that year and reset records across those areas.

  4. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The President's Drought Committee issued a report in 1935 covering the government's assistance to agriculture during 1934 through mid-1935: it discussed conditions, measures of relief, organization, finances, operations, and results of the government's assistance. [52] Numerous exhibits are included in this report.

  5. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These droughts continued from the 1940s drought in the Southwestern United States, New Mexico and Texas during 1950 and 1951; the drought was widespread through the Central Plains, Midwest and certain Rocky Mountain States, particularly between the years 1953 and 1957, and by 1956 parts of central Nebraska reached a drought index of −7, three ...

  6. List of droughts - Wikipedia

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    Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...

  7. 1930s - Wikipedia

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    From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Thompson shows the effects of the Great Depression; due to extreme drought conditions, farms across the south-central United States become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads; The Empire of Japan invades China, which eventually leads to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

  8. Category:20th-century droughts - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "20th-century droughts" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of ...

  9. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    The term "Dust Bowl" initially described a series of dust storms that hit the prairies of Canada and the United States during the 1930s. [4] It now describes the area in the United States most affected by the storms, including western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. [5]