America has always been perceived as the land of opportunity for those willing to work hard. The harder you work in European countries the higher the income tax you are hit with so that encourages tax avoidance and a flourishing black market economy which results in most people staying at the lowest level where the benefits are and socialist governments running out of other people's money.
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.