The Industrial Revolution, the Russian Revolution and the First World War were the events that framed the social and political context of Cubism.
The context in the social environment in which Cubism developed was very agitated, since there were still consequences of the industrial revolution for the reason that Europe was industrializing, and there are still the aftermath of the Russian revolution at the moment it starts the first World War. In the economic sphere Europe was suffering the worst crisis; For this reason, a variety of changes were made and among them the search for art for something new, for beginning to discover new forms of expression and thus sought to have a social interference in art, with the intention that a work was not intended only to contemplation but to reflect these changes.
Many were Irish immigrants who had come to the United States to escape economic hardship, but found themselves fighting in the Mexican-American War against their adopted country. The American Protestant majority resented the Irish for being of lower socioeconomic status, and also for being Catholic. So they revolted
Women turned their attention to the world outside the home. Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses.