Yes, you would be a transfer, but it's usual to try to transfer only for the junior and senior years. The admissions officers at the college in California may not feel that they have enough information about your college-level performance to make any decisions about you. They won't have more than a semester's worth of grades to look at.
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.