As you gather background information and data keep a running list of relevant words, phrases, key concepts, and subjects you encounter to use in future searches related your specific assignment goals. Make a list of terms and their variations. Different authors use different terms and having this list will help you cover all your research bases.
NOTE: When searching, put quotes OR parentheses around phrases of more than one word -- "Great Depression" or (Great Depression) - to search for the phrase, Great Depression, instead of the individual words separately.
Examples:
- War, (World War I), (Vietnam War)
- "World War II," Nazis, Adolf Hitler, holocaust, (concentration camps); Auschwitz
- authoritarian, authoritarianism, totalitarian, totalitarianism; dictator, dictatorship, fascism, fascist
- propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, manipulation
- decolonization, (British Empire)
- "United Nations," (League of Nations), NATO, treaties
- nuclear, (nuclear power); "nuclear war"