Question: When was Eritrea annexed by the largest troop contributor to the peacekeeping mission of the organization in which the US and the country defeated by the US for the gold medal in ice hockey in 1980 became important members?

During the Middle Ages, the Eritrea region was known as Medri Bahri ("sea-land"). The name Eritrea is derived from the ancient Greek name for Red Sea (Ἐρυθρὰ Θάλασσα Erythra Thalassa, based on the adjective ἐρυθρός erythros "red"). It was first formally adopted in 1890, with the formation of Italian Eritrea (Colonia Eritrea). The territory became the Eritrea Governorate within Italian East Africa in 1936. Eritrea gained independence following the 1993 referendum, and the name of the new state was defined as State of Eritrea in the 1997 constitution. [citation needed] Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia in 1953 (nominally within a federation until 1962) and an Eritrean Liberation Front formed in 1960. <SEP> The ``Miracle on Ice ''refers to a medal - round game during the men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, played between the hosting United States, and the four - time defending gold medalists, the Soviet Union. <SEP> herbert paul brooks jr. (august 5, 1937 -- august 11, 2003) was an american ice hockey player and coach. his most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal - winning u.s. olympic hockey team at lake placid. at the games, brooks' us team upset the heavily favored soviet team in a match that came to be known as the 'miracle on ice'. brooks would go on to coach multiple nhl teams, as well as the french hockey team at the 1998 winter olympics, and ultimately returned to coach the us men's team to a silver medal at the 2002 games in salt lake city. brooks was killed in a 2003 car accident. at the time of his death, brooks was the pittsburgh penguins' director of player personnel. <SEP> murray albert dowey, sometimes referred to as murray downey (born january 3, 1926), is a canadian ice hockey goaltender. he was a member of the ottawa rcaf flyers who won the gold medal in ice hockey for canada at the 1948 winter olympics in st. moritz. in 2001 dowey was honoured by the canadian forces when it was announced that the 1948 rcaf flyers were selected as canada’s greatest military athletes of the 20th century. <SEP> In June 2013. Pakistan contributed the highest number overall with 8,186 personnel, followed by India (7,878), Bangladesh (7,799), Ethiopia (6,502), Rwanda (4,686), Nigeria (4,684), Nepal (4,495), Jordan (3,374), Ghana (2,859), and Egypt (2,750). As of 28 February 2015, 120 countries were contributing a total of 104,928 personnel in Peacekeeping Operations, with Bangladesh leading the tally (9446). As of 29 February 2016, 124 countries were contributing a total of 105,314 personnel in Peacekeeping Operations, with Ethiopia leading the tally (8,324), followed by India (7,695) and Bangladesh (7,525). As of March 2008, in addition to military and police personnel, 5,187 international civilian personnel, 2,031 UN Volunteers and 12,036 local civilian personnel worked in UN peacekeeping missions. <SEP> During the war, the Soviet Union together with the United States, the United Kingdom and China were considered as the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II and later became the Four Policemen which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council. The Soviet Union suffered greatly in the war, losing around 27 million people. Approximately 2.8 million Soviet POWs died of starvation, mistreatment, or executions in just eight months of 1941 -- 42. It emerged as a superpower in the post-war period. Once denied diplomatic recognition by the Western world, the Soviet Union had official relations with practically every nation by the late 1940s. A member of the United Nations at its foundation in 1945, the Soviet Union became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, which gave it the right to veto any of its resolutions.