Here's some Time-lines to sort out the different time schedules. Let's start with Us first, O.K..? 5 million years ago, we parted from 'the primates.' you know apes, chimps, etc. We evolved our separate ways. We became Homo Sapiens and, once we had advanced considerably, on the African Continent, we left Africa 70,000 ago.
Hang on. No rush here. There's the accepted time-scale that we go back 200,000 years before we can rightly call ourselves Cro-Magnum Homo Sapiens.
In Africa, all this time. Something that has put the cat amongst the pigeons is those pesky Israeli Archeologists (again.!) who say they have discovered teeth belonging to Cro-Magnum and they date them back to 400,000 years..! That puts a possible exit date for 'Us' 200,000 years further back in time. And it all fits... The Neanderthals parted from The Primates a lot earlier that us, by half or even a full million before we did.
They left Africa 500,000 years ago, maybe 100,000 years before us or, if the 'early date' is still accepted as correct, 300,000 years before we set foot on soil other than Africa. We meet up with them much later. By this time we are just coming into our prime and they are declining. Their interaction and clashes with us brought about their extinction.
Yet they were so close. So much so that when Cro-Magnum and Neanderthal weren't fighting, we were cohabitating and we know that now, cos we have between 1.5 - 4% of our DNA is Neanderthal, so we lived together at one time or another. To add to The Israeli Confusion (which states that 'Not Africa, rather, The Middle East is The start) to add to all that, they're also saying, 'Maybe it also started in China, simultaneously.....' Stand by.
We are all waiting for some results.
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.