It would have to "influence" it right. You're not going to have as many words (if any), for snow if you live in the desert. So your surroundings will definitly effect language--but I don't think the environment determines the language.In other words, Arabic is not say a "desert" language, and German is not a cold landscape language.
That's my two cents anyway.
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.