Do you capitalize north and south if you're talking about the Civil War?

Yes, you capitalize both because here they are used as places and/or people which would be proper nouns.

Yes. The North and South are nations. The north and south are directions.

All the other people answering the question.

Yes, you do capitalize the North and South when referring to the American Civil War.

You do capitalize North and South, because they were the entities who were fighting the war. Northerners and southerners are descriptive words, so are not capitalized.

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.