The Purpose of the First World War was to Create Memorials to the Dead (Who has the courage to embrace the truth?) The monumental dying that occurred in the First World War was no accident. We human beings brought death unto the world. Killing and dying occurred as a testimony to the truth of one's society's sacred ideal. If so many people die for an ideology, it must be real. The purpose of the First World War was to create memorials to the dead.