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1970-73 in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context: Reform, crisis, polarisation. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale20
Intensity55
Duration35
Tech shift15
Political impact68
Cultural memory62
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
How many were killed?
Allende on the day; thereafter thousands killed or disappeared (Rettig and later updates) and tens of thousands tortured (Valech). Use commission ranges, not a single slogan integer.
Did the United States run the coup?
The US government opposed Allende and the declassified record shows covert political action and contacts. The operation on 11 September was executed by Chilean services. Historians argue about degrees of involvement; they do not treat it as a US amphibious landing.
How did Allende die?
The consensus of official investigations and most historians is suicide during the attack on La Moneda. Some memory camps still dispute the image. This page follows the mainstream historical account and names the dispute.
What was the Tanquetazo?
A 29 June 1973 failed armoured rising -- a warning rehearsal, not the September coup itself.
When did the dictatorship end?
The 1988 plebiscite rejected Pinochet's continuation; Patricio Aylwin took office in 1990. Pinochet remained army commander until 1998.
Santiago: La Moneda, the stadium, later Museo de la Memoria.
Washington: Letelier's Sheridan Circle -- a foreign map point.
Maps
The day
11 Sep 1973 in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context: Services move; palace attacked. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Terror and rewrite
1973-80 in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context: DINA; 1980 constitution. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Protest and No
1983-88 in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context: Days of protest; the plebiscite. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Transition memory
1990- in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context: Commissions, London arrest (1998), street argument. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Portrayals
Salvador Allende biographies
The usual English doorway into Chile 1973 coup: Physician-Marxist president of a plurality coalition; died 11 September 1973 in La Moneda. His last broadcast is a primary source.
Augusto Pinochet biographies
The paired doorway: Army commander who headed the regime until the 1988 loss and 1990 handover. Arrested in London in 1998 -- a late legal afterlife.
School survey chapters
Where Chile 1973 coup (11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990)) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context local hours.
Local museums / sites in Santiago and Chilean armed .
Thicker than the English paragraph. Transition memory is the usual late pilgrimage caption.
Feature film / television
If Chile 1973 coup has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.
Korean comparative essays
A Korean reader may pair Chile 1973 coup with 1950-53, Inchon, Tsushima, or the ROK force-structure story even when the campaign was elsewhere.
Rituals
1970-09 / 1991 / 2004 dates
The usual ritual poles of Chile 1973 coup: Allende elected and Rettig / Valech.
Museum and cemetery wreaths
Official and family rites at sites in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context. Henry Kissinger is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.
Classroom minutes
Where Chile 1973 coup is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context's own calendar.
Sayings
Exile cities (London, Mexico City, Toronto) are part of the atlas.
Korean readers: pair with 12.12.1979 as a warning about armies in politics -- without a how-to.