Many modernist writers were deeply affected by the horrors of World War II, particularly

World War II’s mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust and the new threat of nuclear weapons profoundly influenced many modernist writers. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are part of that history, but choice A is narrower than the combined concerns named in choice D: the Holocaust and the threat of global atomic war.

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