Mendota is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, in the state's north-central region. The population was 7,372 at the 2010 census, and was estimated to be 7,204 by July 2015.[3] It is part of the Ottawa-Peru, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
World War I (1914â18): Domestic Course With its dynamic economy, its large population, and its stable government, the United States was well suited to the kind of total conflict that was raging overseas in World War I.he western front was in France, where Germany was opposed by France, Great Britain, and eventually the United States. The eastern front was in Russia, where Germany and Austria-Hungary opposed Russia. The southern front was in Serbia and involved Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
The effects of unrestricted submarine (U-Boat) warfare, economic ties to the Allies, the public outrage to the sinking of the Lusitania, the Sussex torpedoing, and the Zimmerman Telegram caused this change, and the United States entered an Allied Alliance and a World War for the first time in its history.