The US typically acknowledge FOUR year degrees as bachelor degrees.
As others have said, SPQR stands for the Senate and People of Rome. To answer the rest of your question, they referred to the state as the Res Publica, which is the basis for the word "republic" and means literally "the public business." That encompassed the business of the senate and the various officials (governors, generals, etc.) appointed by it, as well as the various assemblies (of the army, the plebs, and the citizens) that had various legislative and deliberative roles.
Note that while we speak of the Republic ending to give way to the Empire, Romans continued to refer to the state as the Res Publica throughout. Originally citizenship meant being a born free member of the Roman people - that is, of the city itself. Unlike Greek city-states, as Rome expanded it often extended citizenship to key persons among its allies, and of course many Romans went abroad into the newly conquered provinces, married and settled.
The army also became a means of attaining citizenship; only citizens could join the legions, but anyone could join the auxiliaries, and completing a term of service (15-20 years) brought you citizenship which passed on to your heirs. Finally in 212 AD the Antonine Constitution simply declared pretty much all free subjects of the empire to be citizens.
M?nus. In Latin, Sen? Tus is a nominative singular noun meaning "Senate".
Populusque is compounded from the nominative noun Populus, "the People", and -que, an enclitic particle meaning "and" which connects the two nominative nouns. The last word, R? M?
Nus ("Roman") is an adjective modifying the whole of Sen? Tus Populusque: the "Roman Senate and People", taken as a singular whole. Thus, the sentence is translated literally as "The Roman Senate & People", or more freely as "The Senate and People of Rome".
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.