Lets face the fact 1914 was created out of appealing speculation and hype, not strongly supported in the bible. It was unquestionably a doctrine that help the proliferation of the literature the WTS published .
Some people grabbed into with the highest degree of faith and adherence.
The WTS actually coerced and persuaded people to pass this doctrine around through its own published literature so that people could show their own righteousness and loyalty to Jehovah. ...... witnessing the truth of the new Kingdom to come, doing so to avail the possibility of personally being saved in the soon to come day of Armageddon.
This unique expressed ideology or theology is still present in JWS today .
JWs and most of conservative / fundamentalist Christendom keep
looking for an event Jesus said would happen within the generation he addressed.
JWs and the IBSA before them proclaimed these particular events happened increasingly after 1914 in any other past era or time in human history.
The reality is quite the opposite, in a matter of fact on a scale of human civilized captivity there were worse times such as the middle ages and before.
The WTS just wanted to substantiate its doctrine of 1914, which isn't supported in the bible and is actually an act of apostasy. (false prophesying)