ARCHIVE PAGE CATEGORISED INTO YEAR

Hello,

I need some assistance to set up my archive.php page for what I believe is a relatively simple matter, although I have been unable to work it out.

My current navigation has a list item named ‘Archives’, which has a menu list drop down on hover. The drop down menu contains 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (displaying the years that the posts were made using <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=yearly’); ?>).

What I am trying to accomplish is that when a year is clicked (eg 2011) my archive page will show all of the posts made in that year as thumbnails.

I am unsure of what needs to be added to archive.php in order for it to show all the posts for each year.

I hope that makes sense. Please let me know if I need to be clearer.
Thanks in advance and I look forward to your help.