Which best states how and when desegregation occurred in the US military?

President Harry Truman ordered the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces in 1948, after World War II ended. His Executive Order 9981 called for equality of treatment and opportunity in the military, so the correct choice is “President Truman desegregated the military after the end of World War II.”

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