Cave men used a lot of inventions to make life more comfortable. Modern humans have managed, still do in a few places, without any of the inventions you mentioned. Without modern agriculture, though, most of humanity would starve to death.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.