Are articles magazines and newspapers scholarly articles?

Generally not in the strict sense. (After all, a scholar who has made an interesting discovery or developed a theory isn't going to present it to the public in a newspaper article, but in learned periodical or in a book) Even newspaper articles written by well known scholars are often popularizations. However, at high school and undergraduate level such articles are often accepted as secondary sources.

Newspaper reports are often acceptable for the narrative detail of what happened when and where (unless there are disputes about these things).

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.