{"id":5905,"date":"2025-06-02T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2025-04-13T18:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:47:05","slug":"causes-of-the-chilean-coup-of-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/causes-of-the-chilean-coup-of-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes of the Chilean Coup of 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/russel-tarr\/episodes\/Causes-for-the-Chilean-Coup-of-1973-e31frgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This new podcast<\/a> primarily explores the\u00a0<strong>political and historical events surrounding the 1973 military coup in Chile<\/strong>\u00a0that overthrew the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende and led to the\u00a0<strong>authoritarian regime of General Augusto Pinochet<\/strong>. It examines the\u00a0<strong>precursors to the coup<\/strong>, including Chile&#8217;s political polarisation, economic instability, and\u00a0<strong>the significant role of the United States<\/strong>\u00a0and its Cold War anxieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new podcast primarily explores the\u00a0political and historical events surrounding the 1973 military coup in Chile\u00a0that overthrew the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende and led to the\u00a0authoritarian regime of General Augusto Pinochet. It examines the\u00a0precursors to the coup, including Chile&#8217;s political polarisation, economic instability, and\u00a0the significant role of the United States\u00a0and its Cold War&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/causes-of-the-chilean-coup-of-1973\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-ib-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4160,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/rule-of-pinochet-1973-chilean-coup-dialogue-poem-starter-activity\/","url_meta":{"origin":5905,"position":0},"title":"Rule of Pinochet \/ 1973 Chilean Coup: Dialogue Poem Starter Activity","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"February 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Starter Activity: Dialogue Poem After a study of the 1973 Chilean Coup, and before\/during a study of Pinochet's rule of Chile, ask two female students to read out the following dialogue poem to the class as a powerful starter activity. 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