You are using --no-site-packages which causes the new environment to not inherit existing site-packages.
Probably this is not what is causing your problem, but it helped me after 4 hours of debugging (also I'm answering the question 1 year later :).
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.