Chilean History and Politics

Politics and Institutions since 1900

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  1. Which constitution of 1925, written under Arturo Alessandri, strengthened the presidency and separated church and state?
  2. In what year did women in Chile gain the right to vote in national elections by law?
  3. Who was the Socialist president elected in 1970 who led the Popular Unity government?
  4. Which date in 1973 saw the military coup that overthrew Allende?
  5. Which army commander led the military government from 1973 to 1990?
  6. What did Chileans vote on in the plebiscite of 5 October 1988?
  7. Who won the 1989 election and led the return to democracy in 1990?
  8. Which 1991 report documented deaths and disappearances under the dictatorship?
  9. Which Nobel prize did Gabriela Mistral win in 1945, becoming the first Latin American to win it?
  10. Which law of 1971, passed unanimously, nationalised the large copper mines under Allende?
  11. Which city is the seat of the National Congress of Chile since 1990?
  12. How many regions does Chile have after the creation of Nuble in 2018?
  13. Chile held the first democratic election after the dictatorship in 1989. Pinochet took power in 1973. How many years apart?
  14. Which treaty of 1984 ended the Beagle Channel dispute between Chile and Argentina?
  15. Which year did Chile join the OECD, the first South American country to do so?
  16. Which institution, with its seat in Santiago since 1948, studies the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean?
  17. Which agrarian reform of the 1960s under Eduardo Frei Montalva redistributed large estates?
  18. Which list places these in the correct order, earliest first?
  19. Which president of the 1960s led the Revolution in Liberty program?
  20. Which poet won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature?
  21. Which Radical president, elected with the Popular Front in 1938, used the motto To govern is to educate?
  22. Which pairing of president and years in office is correct?
  23. Which two chambers make up the National Congress of Chile?
  24. Which treaty of 1929 settled the long dispute over Tacna and Arica between Chile and Peru?
  25. Which constitutional change of 1925 separated the Catholic Church from the state?

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