Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Iceland ta kasance wani ɓangare na Denmark, amma daidai da haɓakar kishin ƙasa a duk faɗin Turai a ƙarni na goma sha tara, ƙungiyar 'yancin kai ta bayyana. 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 hannu a yakin duniya na biyu, Burtaniya ta mamaye ta kuma ta mallake ta cikin lumana a 1940 don hana mamayewar Nazi, bayan da Wehrmacht ta Jamus ta mamaye Denmark
Ka yi haƙuri. 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.