It's hardly 'random'. Sir Robert Borden ensured a separate seat for Canada as a nation in the Treaty of Versailles instead of being folded in with Britain. He was instrumental in transforming the British Empire into a more egalitarian Commonwealth of States.
He was also Chancellor of both McGill University and Queen's University at various times. He established both a unified Canadian Army and the National Research Council. More.
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.