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2. What was the primary goal of the 1974 Constitution?

  • Improve living standards
  • Increase heavy industry production
  • Increase light industry production
  • Bring back central planning

3. When was the ESS?

  • 1968-71
  • 1968-74
  • 1969-71
  • 1969-74

4. What was the effect of the end of mass emigration on the economy?

  • Central planning was reduced
  • Everyone was keen to boost the economy
  • Regime could now rely on skilled people
  • All citizens refused to work in protest, which lead to economic collapse

5. What was 'normalisation'?

  • Citizens accepted the GDR's way of life
  • Term to describe economic stabilisation
  • SED forced citizens into work
  • SED centrally controlled the economy

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