Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which world leaders
failed to prevent a regional conflict between Austria-Hungary and
Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand from becoming a
general European war.
In your response you should do the following:
• Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that
establishes a line of reasoning.
• Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.
• Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least six
documents.
• Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence /beyond
that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the
prompt).
* For at least three documents, explain how or why the documents pont
of view, purpose, historical situation, and/ or audience is relevant b an
argument.
" Use evidence to corroborate, quality, or modity an argumeni that
addresses the prompt.
