The Second Five-Year Plan (1956-59)


	The Second Five-Year Plan (1956-59)
	Advantages 'Modernisation, Mechanisation and Automation' Focused more on consumer goods and improving living standards Also included the development of nuclear energy	Disadvantages Ulbricht's proclamation in 1958 that the GDR needed to overtake the FRG led to the plan being abandoned
	Evaluation The plan enabled the SED to further tighten centralised control and showed an attempt by the SED to bring further reform to the GDR.

Ulbricht's proclamation in 1958 that the GDR needed to overtake the FRG led to the plan being abandoned

The plan enabled the SED to further tighten centralised control and showed an attempt by the SED to bring further reform to the GDR.

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