Ka cika wannan jumlar: Iceland ta kasance cikin ƙasar Denmark, amma da yaɗuwar kishin ƙasa a Turai a ƙarni na goma sha tara, an samu 'yancin kai. Althing, wanda aka dakatar da shi a 1799, an sake dawo da shi a 1844, kuma Iceland ta sami ikon mallaka bayan Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, ta zama Masarautar Iceland a ranar 1 ga Disamba, 1918. Koyaya, Iceland ta raba Masarautar Denmark har zuwa Yaƙin Duniya na II. Kodayake Iceland ba ta da tsaka tsaki a yakin duniya na biyu, Burtaniya ta mamaye ta kuma ta mallake ta cikin lumana a cikin 1940 don hana mamayar Nazi, bayan
Denmark ta mamaye ta Jamus Wehrmacht. Saboda matsayin tsibirin a cikin Arewacin Atlantic, Allies sun mamaye tsibirin har zuwa karshen yakin, tare da Amurka da ke karɓar ayyukan aiki daga Birtaniya a 1941. A shekara ta 1944, Iceland ta yanke dangantakar da ta rage da Denmark (a lokacin har ila a ƙarƙashin mulkin Nazi) kuma ta ayyana kanta a matsayin jamhuriya. Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, Iceland ta kasance memba mai kafa kungiyar North Atlantic Treaty Organization kuma ta shiga Majalisar Dinkin Duniya shekara guda bayan kafuwarta. Tattalin arzikinta ya girma cikin sauri ta hanyar kamun kifi, ko da yake wannan ya lalace ta hanyar jayayya da wasu al'ummai.