Why Did Japan Win The Battle Of Guadalcanal

If the result of the Battle of Guadalcanal was reversed and the Japanese defeated the United States, the war would have been impacted in many ways.
To begin with, after the U.S. rose to the top and caused Japan to surrender the island to American forces, the United States was able to start its own offensive campaign which resulted in the capturing the following places: the Gilbert Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The U.S. was only able to successfully do this because of their win at Guadalcanal. If Japan won, its offensive campaign would not have been decreased but would have strengthened while the United States’ would have weakened. This would mean that the United States wouldn’t have been able to slow down Japan’s
This could have potentially resulted in the United States becoming useless in the war or even captured by the Japanese. This would have greatly helped the Axis powers because, similarly in WWI, the United States came late in the war and gave the Allies extra strength, which, in the end, was enough to cause the Axis powers to surrender. If the United States was forced to stop being proactive, they wouldn’t have been able to help the exhausted Allied forces; therefore, they could have lost the war. Another huge reason on why the win at Guadalcanal was so significant was that Japan was in the middle of constructing an airfield on this island in order to be able to resupply their military; they hoped that this would make them superior in the Central Pacific. Like stated earlier, if the Japanese would have defeated the U.S., they would have completed their airbase which would have given them a huge advantage in the war. The victory of Guadalcanal would have, one, put a bigger target on defeating the Japanese which could have resulted in more deaths and losses of resources than what was already loss, and two, would have allowed Japan to take over surrounding islands thus cutting off