In most writing formats footnotes are good for when you copy or paraphrase a work from someone else's work or works. At the end of the sentence that came from the other source place a number, then at the bottom of that page place the number that you placed at the end of the pharse and then write the information from the source as if you would on the works cited page, with last name, first name of the author, "title of article or book", date, publisher, and page number from the book. More.
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.