- The Great Depression peaked between 1932 and 1933.
- The biggest hit song of 1932 was "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" by Bing Crosby.
- The stock market didn't return to pre-depression levels until 1954.
- By 1940, 2.5 million people had fled the Great Plains. Roughly 200,000 moved to California.
- Most farm families did not flee the Dust Bowl.
- The swirling dust proved deadly.
- The Dust Bowl was both a manmade and natural disaster.
- Okie is a resident or native of Oklahoma
- Were refugee farm families from the Southern Plains who migrated to California in the 1930s to escape the ruin of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
- John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men" about the lives of these people and the devastating effects of the Dust Bowl.
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