It can cost you from 18 lakhs to 40 lakhs depending on your life style. For scholarships you have to apply at the earliest.
See the Fee for doing MBA in USA usually varies from 65k to 90k USD depending on the university. Scholarship is very rare these days but ya you can check facebook.com/learnhub they do provide some scholarship. In case of PHD there will be stipend or fellowship so need not worry about that.
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.