Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: E nyere nnwere onwe na 7 February 1974 n'okpuru nduzi nke Eric Gairy, onye ghọrọ Prime Minista mbụ nke Grenada nke steeti nwere ikike. Obodo ọhụrụ ahụ ghọrọ onye òtù Commonwealth, nke Queen Elizabeth dị ka Onyeisi Ọchịchị. N'ọnwa Machị n'afọ 1979, ndị Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement kwaturu gọọmentị Gairy na "coup d'état" na-enweghị ọbara ma guzobe ndị People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), nke Maurice Bishop na-edu dị ka Prime Minister. A nwụchiri Bishop ma gbuo ya site n'aka ndị otu ndị agha People's Revolutionary Army, na-akpali mkpesa.
Ndị United States duziri mwakpo ahụ n'October 1983. Kemgbe ahụ, agwaetiti ahụ alọghachila n'ọchịchị onye kwuo uche ya nke ndị omeiwu na-anọchite anya ya ma nọgide na-akwụsi ike na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị.