Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Kuzvimiririra kwakapiwa musi wa 7 February 1974 pasi pehutungamiri hwaEric Gairy, uyo akava Mutungamiriri weGrenada wekutanga wehurumende yakasununguka. Nyika itsva yakava nhengo yeCommonwealth, naMambokadzi Elizabeth somusoro wenyika. Muna March 1979, sangano reMarxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement rakapidigura hurumende yaGairy mu"coup d'état" isina ropa ndokutanga hurumende yePeople's Revolutionary Government (PRG), ichitungamirirwa naMaurice Bishop saMutungamiriri weHurumende. Bhishopi akazosungwa ndokuurayiwa nenhengo dzePeople's Revolutionary Army, zvichikonzera kuti
Kupinda kwakatungamirirwa neU.S. muna October 1983. Chibviro chenguva iyeyo, chitsuwa chacho chakadzokera kuhurumende yeparamende inotungamirirwa navanomiririra uye chakaramba chakagadzikana mune zvematongerwe enyika.