Industrial Development - 3rd Five Year Plan 1938-41

Question 1

What were the aims of this plan?

Answer 1

-focus on development of heavy Ind
-promote rapid rearmament
-complete transition to communism

Question 2

What was there strong growth in under this plan?

Answer 2

-heavy Ind main beneficiary - growth machinery + engineering

Question 3

What happened to rearmament?

Answer 3

-resources increasingly diverted to rearmament
-spending on this doubled 1938-40

Question 4

How did the focus on rearmament affect other inds?

Answer 4

-steel production stagnated
-oil failed meet targets causing fuel crisis
-many inds short of raw materials

Question 5

What happened to consumer goods?

Answer 5

-again relegated to lowest priority

Question 6

What was a big problem under this plan?

Answer 6

-deaths of good managers, specialists + technicians following purges
-hard winter 1938
-diversion funds to rearmament + defence

Question 7

What happened to the plan towards the end of the 5 year period?

Answer 7

-plan disrupted + finished early
-due to Ger invasion 1941