History Brief: the Dust Bowl

In this episode of History Brief, the causes and impact of the Great Depression are discussed.

[jaysux]

four years later and this video is still being used for school work... w o w

[allisonortwein]

I am starting a novel called "the Four Winds". It takes place during the dustbowl. Just here to get a better sense of what the dustbowl was before i start reading.

[brucemorris]

I wasn’t born yet at the time but my father told me stories about it . He lived in northwest Oklahoma all his life. I’m 65 now.

[txrambo]

When were only watching this for school reasons 😂

[kikyozoldyck]

yall using this for online school while iam probably the only filipino here just wondering what dust bowl is

[digital_down]

My grandma lived in Kansas during this time and she explains it so much more crazy. Animal life was effected in a drastic and strange way as well. She recalls when a massive storm of grasshoppers came toward the house and splattered on the glass, completely covering the glass with the remains of grasshoppers.

[brendakirkland]

Thank you. It was a chore trying to use the video in the online Language Arts textbook by Pearson. This is a good replacement.

[miamidolphinsfan]

Ken Burns study on this a couple of years ago was truly eye opening.

[Sophie-ihom]

If anyone's here from online school, hello. Here's a short summary of the Dust Bowl, what caused it and the impacts it had

In the 1930s, there was an abundance of wind erosion throughout areas of North America, such as New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Western Kansas and Colorado. This was known as the Dust Bowl, and was caused by little rain and unusually high temperatures, but mainly poor agricultural/ farming practices, such as trees being cut down for growing space for wheat. The Dust Bowl affected on people's lives in many ways, including losing their livelihoods and their homes and soils being damaged, resulting lack of crops for people and farm animals.


Hope that helped???

[vivelafrance]

2:55 Looks like we found Mr. Beast's relatives.

[Vrun]

Thank you for this, I'm doing a research paper on this and it helped me a lot.

[Corium]

Must have been scary to see one of those sand storms coming.

[amandadefranco]

Thanks for helping me with my homework 😂 you da best

[AndrewLewis]

thanks! Helped me in my History class! Needed it! lol

[tpxchallenger]

The Dust Bowl went all the way up to Saskatchewan. Canada was one of the countries hit hardest In the 1930s.

[Ultramiles]

Not watching this for school. Watching because of fraught conditions in the southwest that will likely lead to food shortages and economic disaster similar to depression era.

[The_Kini]

From Four winds book from Kristin Hannah

[TanMann]

yooo i’m not even in history class anymore i just love history

where my history gang at?

[abaltabai]

To understand the severity of those years, before you watch this, read "The four winds" by Kristin Hannah.

[larrygro]

I remember old farmers telling me that their dairy cows would eat the leaves that they could reach off the trees because of the limited grass and then their milk would get rejected from the milk buyers because it affected the taste. Strange times