That amount is tiny. We are $1.6 trillion in deficit and rising every year. Asia, soon joined by Africa, has huge hordes of grossly overpopulating desperate excess labor literally swallowing the world's economies.
Meanwhile congress is squandering ever more we don't have buying votes with any program sounding good to the spoiled and sheltered little children in adult bodies most of us have become.
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.