Question

what are the two key events that led to the modernist literary movement as we know it in the 1920s?
prohibition
ww1
the industrial revolution
the great depression
the war of 1812
manifest destiny

Explanation:

Modernist literature emerged in the early 20th century. World War I (WWI) had a profound impact as it shattered the pre - war sense of order and progress. The disillusionment and trauma of the war led to new ways of literary expression. The Industrial Revolution, while earlier (late 18th - 19th centuries), had already set the stage for some of the social and technological changes that modernist literature would respond to in a more direct way after WWI. Prohibition (1920 - 1933 in the US) was more of a social and legal phenomenon within a country and not a key event for the broad modernist literary movement. The Great Depression (1929 - c. 1939) was after the 1920s peak of modernist literature. The War of 1812 and Manifest Destiny were 19th - century events with no direct link to 1920s modernist literature.

Answer:

WW1, The Industrial Revolution