1854 was the Bleeding Kansas time, when the hopeful attempt at a local voting solution (by the optimist Stephen Douglas) showed that the slavery issue was doomed to be resolved by bloodshed.1850 was the time when the war could have been averted - by admitting the huge territory of California as two states, one slave and one free, adjoining on the Missouri line.
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.