1930s Dust Bowl

My project was on the 1930s Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was period in America's history that brought fear and chaos. Many people believed the world was going to end. A dust bowl is created when a large area of land has lost all of it's vegetation and the vegetations mixes with the topsoil to form dust. As strong gusts of wind come along it picks up all the dust laying on the field and forms huge dust clouds that can travel a long way and can have high-wind speeds. These dust storms would hide cities under massive amount of displaced dirt. Especially on Black Sunday, which occurred on April 14, 1935, which was the worst storm in Dust Bowl history. It was about 200 miles wide and had wind speeds of 65 MPH. Storms of this nature caused immense agricultural  and economical damage. Many people were forced to leave their homes due to the storms. In 1939 the drought finally ended with rain. Shortly after the end of the Dust Bowl, the United States fell into the Great Depression.