Post #3 (1-10)

Sub topic A- brief 1930s research


Naturally as it is known after taking an American history class (and in greater depth if after taking an AP course) the Dust Bowl was just one component to a massive crisis that confronted the nation in the 1930s. The stock market had crashed and with it the world's economy. Food prices were rising as famine broke out across Europe and consequently much of Asia (still under heavy European colonial influence I submit India for example). When the Dust Bowl hit the U.S. food prices on the home front rose even farther, and horrified many parts of the nation at the dismal situation industry and agricultural trade were in. Worse yet, it is almost certain that had the Dust Bowl NOT happened, recovery would have been more quickly attainable, perhaps fast enough to avoid the fall of many newly formed democracies in eastern Europe. These falls led to the rise of regimes like the Third Reich. The depression, coupled with the Dust Bowl perpetuation what would become World War 2 just fourteen years from the beginning of this decade of scarcity. How knows, perhaps if the economies of Europe had recovered more quickly, France and England would have not adopted an appeasmatic scheme.

Above Picture- Market Food Prices