Which campaign followed Midway and marked the first major US offensive in the Pacific theater?

• A. Midway
• B. Guadalcanal
• C. Peleliu
• D. Okinawa

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is identifying the first sustained US offensive operation in the Pacific after Midway. Guadalcanal marked that shift from defensive battles to a real, protracted push to seize strategic ground and stop Japanese expansion. In August 1942 American forces landed on Guadalcanal to take Henderson Field and to prevent the Japanese from using it to threaten supply lines to Australia. This campaign involved coordinated land, sea, and air actions and dragged on into early 1943, signaling the start of the island-hopping offensive strategy that would march toward Japan.

Peleliu and Okinawa came later in the war and represent later stages of the island-hopping approach, not the initial major offensive after Midway. Midway itself happened before this offensive, so it wouldn’t be the campaign following Midway.