Not the best, but certainly not the worst. (How do you "rate" a country OBJECTIVELY?) And you're right about the different climates - it's a HUGE country situated in such a place that pretty much all possible climates are found in the US.
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.