The WTS used current events as to suggest that Armageddon was close at hand.
Being a person/child who was brought up in this religion, fear about Armageddon was always placed into my conscious awareness.
Its not any more because I now know its just fictional ancient mythology.
The ancients tried to create power and relevance to their select gods, to make them the almighty god(s), much of the book of Revelation is expressive mythology (fiction).
The propagation of Armageddon was a marketing tool the WTS used to attract attention to its published literature, it somewhat successfully worked.