Problem is that you are extending JFrame in your class and creating new object "frame". You're adding components such as JRadioButton or JTextArea into fullGUI and other settings of the JFrame are applicable to frame object. It's up to you which approach you're going to choose, but pick one of them.
You can extend JFrame and your class will be a child of JFrame which means you can call all public or protected methods from parent class, no need to create new instance of JFrame. Other way is to not extend JFrame and you have to create new JFrame object instead.
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.