1. The Dust Bowl 1930-1936 2. The Dust Bowl was aka the Dirty Thirtys 3. Severe DustStorms 4. Winds erode the soil 5. It was one of the greatest environmental disasters of American History! 6. Map of theMid-Western States 7. Farming 8. Livestock died 9. Mother child 10. People felthelpless and depressed. 11. Dust Masks 12. Families migrated west. 13. Woody Guthrie 14. 1930s The 1930s 15. Stock Market Crashes$$ Economic Crisis $$ 16. Worst nightmare 17. Unemployment 18. no job = no money 19. Malnourishment 20. Soup Kitchens 21. Poverty 22. President F.D.R. 23. Restoring the economy. 24. Books on the Dust Bowl