According to "Make it New": Early Modernism, which historical events had the most significant impact on modernist writing? Einstein's Theory of Relativity the Wright Brothers' first airplane flight the Great Depression World War I
World War 1 was the biggest event for early modernist writers who didn't want to support the tradition that led to the war. They wanted to reinvent art. Einstein's theory of relativity and the great depression came much later, some would say after modernism started to slowly end. Wright Brothers' airplane flight was not as significant for modernists.
