 Ramba uchinyora ndima ino - Makore okuma1970 akazivikanwa nehondo dzecodnharo dzinoverengeka neUnited Kingdom pamusoro pekuwedzera kweIceland miganho yayo yekuredza kumahombekombe. Iceland yakagamuchira musangano mukuru muReykjavík muna 1986 pakati paPurezidhendi weUnited States Ronald Reagan neMutungamiriri weSoviet Mikhail Gorbachev, mukati mavo vakatora matanho anokosha akananga kukubviswa kwezvombo zvenyukireya. Makore mashomanana gare gare, Iceland yakava nyika yokutanga kuziva rusununguko rweEstonia, Latvia, neLithuania sezvo dzakaparadzanakubva kuUSSR. Mumakore ose e1990, nyika yakawedzera basa rayo renyika dzakawanda uye yakagadzira hurongwa hwekunze hwakananga kune vanhu uye kuchengetedza runyararo. Nokuda kwechinangwa ichocho, Iceland yakapa rubatsiro uye ruzivo kune zvakasiyana-siyana zveNATO-kutungamirirwa kupindira muBosnia, Kosovo, neIraq. 