In the future, if you want us to help you make something look like something else, it would help to have an image. Use the screenshot capability of DDMS to record what it is you want something to look like, and include the image in your question.
You can do this via xml only. There's an example. Most likely you already do smth similar.
But my advice is to create your custom image (which you will display on the ImageButton) so that image includes both your icon and the text label. However looks like CommonsWare proposes a better approach.
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.