You could use CSS transition/animations to do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. The code snippet below works on Chrome and Firefox 4.0 beta. On IE, there's no fade.
One day it will just work on IE.
Little google searching does everything you need.
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.