According to "Make it New": Early Modernism, which historical events had the most significant impact on modernist writing?

World War I had the most significant impact on modernist writing. Its destruction and loss of life left many writers disillusioned with traditional beliefs and ways of expressing ideas, themes that became central to modernism. The Great Depression also influenced later writers, but it came after the major early modernist shift associated with the war.

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